PP203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The History Teacher, Bear-Baiting, Vicroads
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An introduction to the principles of morals and. Pleasure the only intrinsic good, pain the only intrinsic evil - value of all else is as a means to enjoying pleasure or avoiding pain. Morality not an end in itself, but a means for promoting human happiness (defined as pleasure) Wants to establish an ethical standard of measure (foundationalism) Wants to combat moral prejudices (radical and social reformer) "nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as determine what we shall do. " (bentham) Mill refers to it as the greatest happiness principle: "utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. " (utilitarianism, ch. 2, 158) Utilitarianism and moral progress - joshua greene https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=y6q49bh1-yo.
