POL320Y1 Lecture 13: Lecture 13.doc
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Individual is subordinate to group tyranny of the majority"s happiness. Building an airport in this location would be a good thing, but it requires stealing people"s property. The cost-benefit analysis cannot answer questions of morality: utilitarianism, when understanding pain and pleasure, it does so in purely hedonistic terms. Government should be concerned of the welfare of the population (the poor, the decrepit, etc. ) A political philosophy that does not care about this misses human flourishing and human nature people have ideals, moral principles, etc. Utilitarianism does not take into account the value of noble action, etc. He wants to incorporate concerns for noble/higher goods into utilitarianism. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be a. This is an elitist principle: page 261 (utilitarianism): it is unquestionable fact that those who are equally acquainted with an equal give a most market that employs their higher faculties.
