Utilitarianism

that best represents my personal and workplace when making decisions is Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is defined as an individual decides on decisions based on everyone. “Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism because it rests in the mind that it is the consequences or results of actions, laws, policies, and so on that define whether they are good or bad, correct or wrong” (Fieger, 2014). Agreeing to our text Utilitarianism individual is concerned for the majority and decides based on…

ethics where one considers the morality of their actions. Using Andrew Bailey’s First Philosophy: Second Edition I will further explain my points on both utilitarianism and deontology, and explain why I believe Immanuel Kant’s theory of deontology is flawed using the trolley problem. I will argue that John Stuart Mill’s theory of utilitarianism is a more appropriate approach to moral dilemmas, as making calculated decisions in consequentialism results in better outcomes for society. The…

The principle of utility states that social welfare is the pre-eminent social value. Utilitarianism describes what is “good” being synonymous with what is overall best for the community and maximizes what is ethically right. Utilitarianism also focuses on the consequences of an action. According to Bentham’s Utilitarianism, by nature, maximizing pleasure and minimalizing pain is the metric individuals use when determining the morality of an action. When assessing the scenario described,…

several philosophical issues such as assisted-suicide, the right to live. The consequentialist theory focuses on the ultimate consequence of the action , whether an action is right or wrong depending on the outcome. Utilitarianism is the most developed consequentialist theory. Utilitarianism differs to the Kantian theory as it main goal is to maximize happiness and give weight to both the individual and the people associated with the individual “regardless of the contrary urgings of moral rules…

On the contrary, another viewpoints of consequentialism which is the rule utilitarianism, concentrate on the consequence of the rule of an action (Hamilton, 2002). Vary from the act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism will see on the rule of an action to interpret whether it is moral or not. The Principle of Utility is still be used yet this time it is used to justify the rule of an action. A rule is right to the extent that it increases the total happiness of the influenced parties (Hamilton,…

Utilitarianism is the theory that the right decision is that which produces the greatest amount of good, everyone considered. The strengths of this theory is that we are not simply considered our own selfish wants, but the good of all people. The struggle we often have with this concept is that utilitarianists are forced to make decisions where there is often a lot of collateral damage. That begs the question as to whether the good created is greater than the loss. The Tuskegee experiments are a…

Actions which are undertaken to reflect the ethical theory of Utilitarianism aim to provide the maximisation of good for a society. “Utilitarians believe that the purpose of morality is to make life better by increasing the amount of good things (such as pleasure and happiness) in the world and decreasing the amount of bad things (such as pain and unhappiness)” (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018). In the context of the issue of capital punishment, this maximisation of good relates most…

PHIL 226 Final Part A: Utilitarianism Utilitarianism judges the moral worth of an action in the amount of utility the action will create. Utility is an abstract measure which is hard to pin down. Some branches consider the utility of an act to be the amount of pleasure that act will create whereas others use terms such as “happiness” or “benefit”. Mill allowed for a personal definition of utility to attempt to introduce flexibility that was not present in the previous more Hedonic iterations…

Disturbing Discrepancies Utilitarianism is a theory of morality in government that operates under the principle that the good of the masses is more important than the happiness of any single person or entity. It argues that whatever action will bring about the greatest good for the greatest number is therefore the right option. This idea of improving the lives of many is hard to refute simply as a principle, as one is certainly in the moral right to place one’s neighbors before oneself. That…

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that determines right from wrong by focusing on the end outcomes (O’Brien). Greek philosophers defined what is ethical as that which creates the greatest balance of pleasure over pain, in other words the greatest good for the greatest number. In business, utilitarianism is usually the most frequent approach to moral reasoning because of the way it considers for cost. Utilitarianism only considers the consequences of an action and in this case utilitarianism…