PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Stuart Mill, Everything Counts, Consequentialism
15 Nov 2016
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If you want to punch someone in the nose, you have to make a fist . The consequences determine the rightness or wrongness of an action. Not best net consequences : don"t do it. Amount of good amount of bad = net consequence. Amount of bad amount of good = net consequence. Most common form, utilitarianism the act which produces the most happiness (and minimizes the most suffering) Acts are not good or bad in themselves. What makes it wrong when a human is tortured. No ones happiness or suffering matters more than anyone else"s. Staying out of adult consensual sex lives. Usually the people who are the happiest are the ones who are least interested in their own happiness. Of people who have had two pleasures, whichever is the preferred is the superior pleasure. You would not trade places with an animal, or even a person less educated, intelligent or selfless.
