Two-level utilitarianism

girl, he has a long-term affair with Rory. While his fiancée is gone, he allows Rory to stay at his place with him. This is the type of behavior that we see in stage two. Both Logan and Rory are receiving something out of the exchange and thus it is fine for them to have an affair. Kohlberg states that in these stages, higher levels of reasoning also contain the understanding of the lower reasoning stages. This “hierarchical integration” is due to the fact that these stages always move forward (Kohlberg & Hersh, 1977). Regression is only possible in cases of extreme trauma.…

I have made an abundant amount of change since I’ve reached level two. I have had to make many changes to my behavior before being able to reach this level. One of my main problems was lying which I have had trouble with before I came to Eckerd and stealing as well which I’ve worked on also. When I leveled up I was faced with problems within the group and problems I faced before I leveled up like arguing with my staff and peers. Since leveling up I learned to deal with these situations and…

The moral theory of utilitarianism is based on the idea that actions are considered “good” if they produce pleasure, and they are considered “not good” if they produce pain. The goal is to choose the actions that produce the most pleasure or happiness for the most people. This seems like it would obviously be preferred by everyone, but most people fail to realize that this type of “perfect” society would require them to make a lot of personal sacrifices for the good of the people as a whole. In…

Quantitative pleasures come out of Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism can often be thought of as dangerous and wretched because it allows for seriously immoral acts to take place. Utilitarianism argues for maximum pleasure to take place, but in doing so can allow such acts as rape, torture etc. Therefore many disregard the act because of its possible immoral acts that could take place. However the Philosopher Mill has come up with two different levels of pleasure, qualitative and quantitative, to…

There are many misconceptions that Mill believes to be either false or misleading in general. A common mistake is often made interpreting Utility or utilitarianism to be against the exact thing in which it stands for. Essentially, utilitarianism is the moral theory that one should seek pleasure, happiness, and the avoidance of pain. Mills statement expressing that the reality of what one should desire to reach in regards to moral standings is to seek pleasure and not to seek pain should hold…

Utilitarianism is interesting because it takes primarily a consequentialist approach to ethic looking at the ends to something and looks at the pros or cons of an action, or what causes the most happiness versus the amount of generating pain from an action. Even though it sounds simple to compare the amount of happiness versus pain the equation that we have to use for utilitarianism does not always work the that it should and other flaws that we will go over in this essay taking an unusual…

(i) What are the main advantages of utilitarianism? (21 marks) Utilitarianism is a teleological ethical theory that aims to define moral actions as those which satisfy the principle of utility. This states that actions are good insofar as they promote the greatest amount of happiness, and in making moral decisions, one should act in the way which promotes the greatest happiness for the greatest number of individuals. Humans have always considered happiness as a fundamental end goal to strive…

John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism provides the reader with a meaning behind the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory. Mill defines the utilitarianism theory as one that state's “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (p. 90). Many utilitarians look at utility as pleasure, with the absence of pain. He presents utilitarianism as a view that utilitarians perceive to be the morally right action is the action…

behavior. There are several theories about what is right or wrong conduct, but two of the most popular ideas is Utilitarianism and Kantianism. Both set up strict methods of deciding how a person would know what the right thing to do in a situation would be. On one hand, utilitarianism claims that you can use intuition to discern what the greatest good for the greatest number of people is. On the other side, Kantianism claims that you can use reasoning and logic to discern moral obligations and…

Utilitarianism is a philosophical concept within the study of ethical behavior. It is correlated to a branch of philosophical ethics termed normative ethics1. Normative ethics is an examination of self-behavior; it attempts to define what makes an action morally sound. Utilitarianism asserts that the moral action is the one that maximizes utility. Utility can be defined in various ways, such as pleasure, financial security and lack of suffering3. The two predominate figure heads of…