Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: John Stuart Mill, Consequentialism, Spatial Relation
20 Mar 2016
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Utilitarianism: queen regina v. dudley and stephens. Case details can be found here: http://www. justiceharvard. org/resources/the-queen-vs-dudley- and-stephens-1884- the-lifeboat-case: the target and source of moral theories. The moral worth of an act is determined by its consequences. The consequentialist theory is the theory that human actions derive their moral worth solely from their outcomes or consequences. What is source of moral evaluation: the consequentialists, bentham 1748-1842. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness : the idea of happiness. Happiness is the presence of pleasure and absence of pain. Pleasure, or happiness, is the only thing desirable as an end (it. All other desirable things are so desired for the pleasure that they produce. These other goods are simply means towards pleasure (and are therefore instrumental goods. : the hedonic calculus.
