PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Experience Machine, Consequentialism
15 Oct 2017
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What matters most to the state, is that every citizen gets treated equally. It conforms to our intuitions that human well being matters; being that is, it is consequentialist. Defining utility: the first stage of utilitarianism is to give an account of human welfare, or utility". 4 possibilities: welfare hedonism: simple pleasures are the greatest good (oldest view - least plausible). Problem: nozick and his experience machine": non-hedonistic mental-state utility: maximize the pleasures of your mental state, whatever that mental state is be it achieved from reading poetry or pulling grass. Problem: preference satisfaction: utility is maximized by satisfying preferences.
