PHIL 320A Lecture 7: PHIL-320A,University of Arizona,TextbookReadings(p7)

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 320A
• Professor: All

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These evils are results of gross imprudence, ill-regulated desires, or imperfect social institutions but they are are conquerable by human effort. Anyone can best serve the happiness of others by sacrificing their own as long as the world is in an imperfect state all men can do it, but not all men should do it. Doing without happiness is the best way to realize happiness is attainable. What is right in conduct is doing the act that would not increase the agent"s happiness, but of all that concerned in an action. Utilitarians requires the agent to be strictly impartial as a disinterest benevolent spectator. Do unto others as you would do to yourself is the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. In order to closely approach this ideal . 1. laws must make the happiness of the individual as close in line with the happiness of the whole as possible.