PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Ethical Egoism, Hedonism, Epicurus
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Psychological hedonism: the view that all human desire is necessarily directed to achieving pleasure and avoiding pain. Ethical hedonism: the moral view that human desire and action ought to be directed to achieving pleasure and avoiding pain. Consequentialism: utilitarianism is a type of consequentialism. Principle of utility: act always to promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number, endorses all actions that tend to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good or happiness. Yes, if they change their ways: most utilitarianists recognize that your character and intentions do matter in some cases, people with good intentions are most likely t apply ghp, equal consideration: everyone"s good is equal. Bentham"s utilitarianism: equality: a moral ideal, happiness of x is not < or > happiness of y, quantity is more important than quality. Bentham"s utilitarian calculus (hedonistic calculus: intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, extent.
