PHLA11H3 Lecture 1: Philosophy Tutorial 1 PDF
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Utilitarianism: theory in normative ethics that the best moral action is the one that maximizes utility. maximizes greatest amount of happiness. Utility: usually de ned in relation to the well being of sentient (able to feel or perceive things) entities. Objection: consequentialism, welfarism (happinessism, hedonism(pleasure&pain) *philosophy of swine objection, question: when he says beast does he literally just mean animals, or does he mean all of humanity. The reason i asks because for the time period not everyone was seen as equal. Either he was forward for his time or an idealistic moron. Wrong actions promotes the opposite effect to happiness. De nes happiness: intended pleasure with absence of pain; unhappiness is pain and loss of pleasure; hedonism. The extent of it is left as an open question. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable in the end.
