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Utilitarianism

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Act by Jeremy Benthem

it is a theory that desires practicality, derives from the dissatisfaction of the corruption and dysfunctioning society under religious ethics.

it is secular.

The theory basis itself on the grounds of psychology, that humans are naturally driven by pleasure and often results in self-centred satisfaction. Hence it is both hedonic and psychologically egoistic.

Yet, Bethem is not completely egoistic because he proposed that we must consider the consequence of four sanctions.

1. physical pleasures

2. political pleasures

3. religious pleasures

4. moral pleasures

Felicific calculus

intensity

duration

certainty

nearness

fecundity

purity

extent