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| 940175044 | Two Main Features of Utilitarianism | consequentialist hedonistic | 0 | |
| 940175045 | The Utility Principle | "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong" | 1 | |
| 940175046 | An ethical system or view which affirms that we should all act to produce the greatest good for the greatest number (not merely the good of the one acting). | Utilitarianism | 2 | |
| 940175047 | Hedonism | Views pleasure as the sole good and pain as the only evil. | 3 | |
| 940175048 | Main feature of Mill's Utilitarianism | Distinguishes happiness from mere sensual pleasure and defines happiness in terms of higher-order pleasures or satisfactions such as intellectual, aesthetic, and social enjoyments as well as minimal suffering. It affirms utilitarianism should have as its goal (telos) "happiness" for the greatest number rather than simply the "lower pleasures" for the greatest number. | 4 | |
| 940175049 | Consequentialism | The rightness or wrongness of an act is determined by the goodness or badness of the results (or consequences) that flow from the act. It is the end, not the means, that counts; the end justifies the means. | 5 | |
| 940175050 | Deontology | Certain features in the act itself have intrinsic value (i.e. would see something intrinsically wrong in the very act of lying). The center of value is the act. | 6 | |
| 940175051 | Rule Utilitarianism | An act is right if and only if it is required by a rule whose acceptance would lead to greater utility for society than any available alternative. | 7 | |
| 940175052 | Hedonic Calculus | An algorithm for measuring pleasure and pain. | 8 | |
| 940175053 | Intrinsic | (adj.) belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part | 9 | |
| 940175054 | Instrumental | the means whereby some act is accomplished | 10 | |
| 940175055 | Associated with natural law ethics. We should act in ways which will permit us to realise our human purpose | St Thomas Aquinas | 11 | |
| 940175056 | Aquinas' notion of human purpose | Protect and preserve human life, reproduce and educate our young, live in society and seek to understand God | 12 | |
| 940175057 | Purity | The degree to which a pleasure is not mixed with pain | 13 | |
| 940175058 | Remoteness | How soon the pleasure will occur | 14 | |
| 940175059 | Intensity | The degree/ strength of the pleasure | 15 | |
| 940175060 | Certainty | How sure is it that the pleasure will occur? | 16 | |
| 940175061 | Extent | How many will feel the effect? | 17 | |
| 940175062 | Duration | How long will the pleasure last? | 18 | |
| 940175063 | Fecundity | The fruitfulness of an action in terms of future pleasures | 19 | |
| 940175064 | Weak rule utilitarianism | The view that we should form rules but set them aside if they do not serve pleasure in a particular set of circumstances | 20 | |
| 940175065 | Strong rule utilitarianism | The view that we should form rules and follow them even if they do not serve pleasure in a particular set of circumstances | 21 | |
| 940175066 | Generally considered the founder of utilitarianism | Bentham | 22 | |
| 940175067 | Suggested a distinction between higher and lower pleasures | Mill | 23 | |
| 940175068 | Preference utilitarianism | The good is what is in the interest of those concerned | 24 | |
| 940175069 | Famous preference utilitarian | Peter Singer | 25 | |
| 940175070 | Negative Utilitarianism | Seeks to minimise pain | 26 | |
| 940175071 | Pinprick argument | A negative utilitarian should sanction the destruction of all human life to avoid the pain of a pinprick | 27 | |
| 940175072 | Who thinks it is better to be a dissatisfied human than a satisfied pig | Mill | 28 | |
| 940175073 | Who thinks poetry is as good as pushpin? | Bentham | 29 |
