PHIL 196 Study Guide - Final Guide: Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile, Rule Utilitarianism, Act Utilitarianism
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Act utilitarianism: whenever you act, you must choose the option that increases impact on human. They evaluate individual actions solely by their utility pleasure; accepted the resulting verdicts, no matter how extreme. The right act is the one that maximizes human happiness (average total happiness over their entire lifetime) maximize utility if (almost) everyone in a society followed it. Rule utilitarianism : is a theory that people should follow the rule that would. Favoured a more moderate morality as they evaluated moral codes and political institutions by their collective impact on human happiness. Morality as a task not given to each individual agent, but to a community to human beings what if everyone did that . Act utilitarians believe that everyone should act on their own accord to maximize happiness, even if that means killing someone for the greater good.
