The main goal in either case is to make moral decisions based on the outcomes that will result in the greatest net happiness for the most people." What is the hedonic calculus? "The hedonic calculus, also known as the felicific calculus, is a method proposed by Jeremy Bentham for quantif...
On an individual level, if you make morally correct decisions at work, then everyone's happiness will increase. However, if you choose to do something morally wrong—even if legal—then your happiness and that of your colleagues, will decrease. Utilitarianism's Relevance in Business Utilitarianism...
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Ideal utilitarianism Not only happiness or pleasure is intrinsically good; Love, knowledge, beauty, friendship, etc. Ideal utilitarianism Rightness of an action depends on maximizing the amount of these intrinsic goods. Act-utilitarianism (AU) 1. Look at the consequence of a particular action. 2. ...
“Of course we must consider all the less obvious effects of breaking R, such as reducing people’s faith in the moral order, before coming to the conclusion that to break R is right: in fact we shall rarely come to such a conclusion. Moral rules, on the extreme utilitarian view, are...
In responding to this penultimate objection, Mill continues to clarify what, precisely, he thinks is valuable about moral instincts: they give people rules of thumb to follow in most situations, shortcuts that can generally lead them to make good decisions. Situations of moral conflict, when peop...
It’s hard to calculate the future (if you’re not God). It rides roughshod over human rights (hence Mill’s desire to write a whole section of his essay devoted to justice) It fails to account for important moral elements of a decision, like integrity (Williams) and duties to family,...
In applying Utilitarianism we need tomake decisions basedon a holistic view of the happiness gained and misery ended/ averted and should do so with a strong preference to the “higher pleasures” and longer-term happiness. Complex problems rarely have simple solutions, and this one is no differe...
We have standing reasons based on the good of creatures to reduce harm to the animal and to help them. These two elements are enough to give rise to a moral distinction between doing harm and allowing harm to any sentient animals–including N–P&N–H-animals. Agents have standing reasons ...
decisions that we make. He says the decisions should always benefit the most people as much as possible no matter what the consequences might be. Mill says that we should weigh the outcomes and make our decisions based on the outcome that benefits the majority of the people. This leads to ...