JSB170 Study Guide - Final Guide: Joseph Butler, Samuel Von Pufendorf, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Quote we do not talk to say something, but to obtain and effect. ". Developed act utilitarianism and proposed pleasure and pain as being the sole important determining factors in morality. Proposed happiness as having the most intrinsic value. Proposed ideals such as freedom, rights etc. as having the most intrinsic value and proposed ideal utilitarianism - the tallying of good or bad actions regardless of pleasure. Proposed preferences as having the most intrinsic value. Quote life is nasty, brutish and short". Note how should i act, but what kind of person should. Agrees that we are primarily selfish however we also have innate altruism. Argued that we need emotion to base our decisions upon. Even if a leader has a scandalously immoral personal life, as long as they rule with morals they are a good leader. Developed two dominant penological discourses ends and means. Developed three primary duties duties to god, to oneself and to others.
