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16 Cards in this Set
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U: Intensity |
Strength of the feeling |
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U: Duration |
How long it lasts |
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U: Certainty |
How likely it is the action will lead to pleasure |
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U: Propinquity |
How soon the pain/pleasure will come |
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U: Fecundity |
How likely the action is to cause the same feeling |
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U: Purity |
How likely the action is to not cause the opposite feeling |
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U: Extent |
# of people that the action will affect ( thus feel pleasure/pain) |
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U: Higher Pleasures |
Intellectual pleasures (poetry, reading, philosophy) |
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U: Lower Pleasures |
Basic pleasures we share with plants/animals (eating, drinking, sex) |
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U: Push-pin Game |
Bentham regarded this to be just as pleasurable as poetry = it is a higher pleasure... But Mill disagreed |
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U: Qualitative |
Quality of the pleasure is more significant than the mere quantity of it |
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U: Quantitative |
Amount of pleasure felt is most important in the Felicific Calculus |
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U: Felicific Calculus |
Bentham's method of working out the utility an action will create (it has 7 criterias) |
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U: Preference |
Utility = Satisfaction of preferences |
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U: Preference Utilitarians |
Peter Singer R.M. Hare |
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U: Experience Machine. |
Nozick: prefer reality over simulated happiness = therefore happiness cannot be the ultimate 'sovereign master' of what is right/good |
