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7 Cards in this Set
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Utilitarianism |
Consequences rather than motives, happiness of the greatest number should be in the result |
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Act utilitarianism |
Rightness or wrongness of acts judged on amount of happiness they create |
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Bentham, Jeremy |
Weather law is good or bad depends on whether it increases the general happiness of the majority |
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Consequential thinking |
Only taking into account the consequences of an action when judging the act as right or wrong |
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Hedonic calculus |
By Bentham, affects of an action measured by the amount of pleasure it may bring |
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Mill, John Stuart |
Developed Benthams utilitarianism |
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Rule utilitarianism |
Mill, actions right or wrong, depending on whether they create happiness, not because of individual effects |
