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Fed Up goes into depth on how big private corporations and the American government benefits from the exploitation and miseducation of it’s citizens as it relates to health. What the government does to hide the truth about food, sugar, and its relation to obesity is in direct violation of the Social Contract Theory. The Social Contract Theory argues that people should put their self-interest behind them and make decisions that benefit everyone rather than just make them better off. Corporations…

Quantitative Pleasures Qualitative and 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…

and maximize happiness or pleasure of the overall good in order to be moral. And the happiness of the majority is chosen over happiness or pleasure of the minorities. Utilitarianism takes a quantitative and reductionist measure to deal with ethics. It is the ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong solely on the outcomes (consequences) of choosing one action/policy over other actions/policies. Utilitarianism’s underlying idea is that happiness and pleasure are fundamentally…

means to reach an end and how that end results in pleasure. Mill explains the importance and advantages of utilitarianism while also responding to misunderstandings about it. He believes in the greatest happiness principle and that if a society benefits from the impairment or disappointment of another because of a lack in obtaining a higher faculty, then this is okay because it is hedonic, in that it maximizes pleasure. Mill believes that pleasure drives human actions and that everyone has the…

mentions that if the distressing stimulation were real life as opposed to fictional it would not be received as pleasure, so Dubos' solution to the paradox of tragedy fails. Hume then mentions another idea by French author Fontenelle. Fontenelle’s solutions consists of the idea that pleasure and pain come from the same source, tickling as an example when pushed is first onset as pleasure but if pushed far enough can induce pain. Hume acknowledges that the argument holds some weight but he…

shares Mill’s theories of pleasure and pain. However, Bentham believed that all actions taken by individuals ought to be carried out with the intention of creating the greatest well-being for the largest possible quantity. One must assess the value of decisions and how it will serve as an instrument in the future in accordance with the given actions foreseeable intensity, duration, certainty, remoteness, its fecundity (the chances of an action yielding the same kind of pleasure or pain) and it…

consequences. Also, Bentham defines happiness as pleasure and states that the right action is the action that produces the most happiness for the greatest number of people. As a result, this system promotes selflessness. Mill further elaborates that happiness is pleasure and the absence of pain. Mill adds on to introduce the concept of higher and lower pleasures, higher pertaining to the pleasures associated with intellect and lower pertaining to the pleasures associated with the senses. Mill…

According to the ideology of Classical Utilitarianism, humans have the moral obligation to choose their actions based off what will result in the most net happiness. Happiness and unhappiness in this ideology is based off subjective experience in terms of emotion and bodily sensation. Therefore, happiness corresponds to a pleasant experience while unhappiness corresponds to an unpleasant experience. Classical Utilitarianism relies on the Greatest Happiness Principle, which states that the right…

Utilitarianism is a moral doctrine that implies that the right course of action is the one that produces the greatest balance of benefits over harms for everyone affected. Bentham, the founder of Utilitarianism defined happiness is to be anything that causes pleasure and unhappiness is to be anything that causes pain. John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher and economist, took Bentham’s moral theories on Utilitarianism and developed them farther. Mill formed all of his ideas off of Bentham’s…

Well-being Diener (2000) proposed in an article which title was ‘Subjective Wellbeing: The Science of Happiness and a Proposal for a National Index’ theorizes that the objectification of wellbeing is hidden within satisfaction of life. His points to a construct of wellbeing called happiness. He cited that: “People's moods and emotions reflect on-line reactions to events happening to them. Each individual also makes broader judgments about his or her life as a whole, as well as about domains such…