Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marginal Utility, Debit Card, Act Utilitarianism
2 Apr 2016
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It is extremely demanding if you accept direct utilitarianism there are lots of things you have to do. An example based on economists" assumption: diminishing marginal utility. If i have 1000 apples and someone gives me an apple the 1001 apple doesn"t mean very much. The more of a thing that you already have, the less each successive addition of one means to you. Suppose you are in the middle class and you are walking on the street with and a debit card and credit card in your wallet and you see a homeless person and he asks for some money. means something to you but it means a lot more to the homeless person. If you transfer the from yourself to the homeless person you will lose some happiness but the homeless person will gain much more. The thing that you must do is to give the homeless person the .
