PHIL-386 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Brothers Karamazov, Immanuel Kant, Preference Utilitarianism
5 May 2020
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Moreover, utilitarianism"s single principle is applied universally, without fear or favor. Many contemporary consequentialists agree with bentham to the extent that they think the rightness or wrongness of an action must depend on its consequences, but they have abandoned the idea that maximizing net happiness is the ultimate goal. Instead they argue that we should seek to bring about whatever will satisfy the greatest number of desires or preference. This variation, which is known as preference utilitarianism, does not regard anything as good, except in so far as it is wanted or desired. More intense or strongly held preferences would get more weight than weak preferences: consequentialism offers one important answer to the question of how we should decide what is right and what is wrong, but many ethicists reject it. Categorical imperative, which he states in several distinct formulations.
