Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - John Stuart Mill, Act Utilitarianism, Starbucks

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Jeremy bentham - first key proponent of utilitarianism. Or if you"re in a situation where your choices are to simply minimize damage, Limit the number of people negatively affected by an action as much as you can. Remember the theory is to promote the good + minimize the harm. Bentham thought that basically the only thing for sure that was good was. Pleasure was everything; everything else was debatable. He didn"t see any difference between types of pleasure. He created a really complicated mathematical formula involving positive and. He had 7 questions that you would ask yourself about a particular act to. He was very discerning about what pleasure is good" because there are. The unit of pleasure"; it was basically +1 & -1 for different criteria, & at the end of it you had a plus" or minus" score.

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