Utilitarism

Question 1

Hume

Answer 1

Ethics should be concerned with usefullens what humans found is most right

Question 2

Bentham

Answer 2

Usefulness = happiness
Want to create system to benefit society
Believed the answer could be found in happiness
Based on greatest good for gartestst number .

Question 3

Principle utility

Answer 3

Max plesure - minimise pain
Nature has placed us under 2 soverin master pleasure an pain
See moral acts as those which produce max happiness minimise pain

Question 4

Pain vs plesure

Answer 4

According to Bentham mayoral good greatest sum players least is pain
Act right = more plesure than pain

Question 5

Plesure seeker

Answer 5

Has proposed way to seek plesure called hedonic calculus way of acaluaclating benefit of human act through consequence has 7 parts to work out max happiness
1. Intensity
2. Duration of it
3. Certinaanity
4. How it will lead to further happiness
5. How near to plesure
6. How pure
7. How many expel are happy and to what extent
Attempts to quantify happiness hard to apply
Telollogica raises on consequences of actual o are not always psotivtive
What counts as. A plesure for one person may be pain for other