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Mind Map by Alice Finbow, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alice Finbow
over 6 years ago
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UTILITATIANISM
- Bentham
- Principle of Utility= this claims that we
should choose the action most likely to bring
about the "greatest good for the greatest
number"
- Hedonic Calculus can be used to
calculate the most pleasurable
action- 1. Intensity, 2. Duration,
3. Certainty, 4. Propinquity
(closeness), 5. Fecundity (chance
of further pleasures), 6. Purity
(not followed by pain), 7. Extent
- Weaknesses
- values everyone as
equal, not dependent on
position in society
- hedonic calculus is
comprehensive and covers
everything
- Reflects how we
instinctively act-
save most people
- Takes
consequences
into account
which avoids
impulsive acts
- values everyone as
equal, not dependent on
position in society
- Strengths
- You can't predict
consequences e.g.
Stalin may have rose
up if Hitler didn't
- pleasures
aren't
equal
- No protection
for minorities
- Nozick- perhaps self-worth,
freedom, identity are more
important to humanity than
pleasure
- whose happiness
matters more? leads
to swine ethics
- You can't predict
consequences e.g.
Stalin may have rose
up if Hitler didn't
- Principle of Utility= this claims that we
should choose the action most likely to bring
about the "greatest good for the greatest
number"
- Mill
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