UTILITARIANISM BY BENTHAM AND JOHN STUART MILL

UTILITARIANISM BY BENTHAM AND JOHN STUART MILL

1. GEN 006 LESSON 5

2. Learning Objectives: Recognize the nature of the basic units of ethics and morality, and philosophical reasoning. Justify the significance of morality and ethics on a personal and societal level.

3. Ethical Frameworks: Consequentialism

4. We live in a world where sometimes people do terrible things . And, if we’re the one's who happen to be there , and we can do something to male things better, WE MUST . Even if it means getting our hands dirty

5. ? TELEOLOGICAL ETHICS CONSEQUENTIALISM

6. TELEOLOGICAL Derives moral obligation from what is good or desirable as an end to be achieved Morality of an action is contingent on the action’s outcome which means that the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on outcomes/consequence

7. Ethical Egoism Moral duty is exclusive for the self which means that one ought to do/pursue whatever is in one’s own best interest

8. Utilitarianism Consequences of actions are more favorable than unfavorable to everyone which means that one ought to perform actions which tend to produce the greatest overall happiness

9. JEREMY BENTHAM’S PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY human actions and social institutions should be judged right or wrong depending upon their tendency to promote the greatest amount of pleasure or least amount of pain

10. JOHN STUART MILL’S GREATEST HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE It is not the quantity of pleasure but the quality of happiness that is central to utilitarianism An action should be judged right or wrong if it has the tendency to achieve happiness for the greatest number of people

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