PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sentience, Normative Ethics, Felicific Calculus
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Utilitarianism mill: normative ethics utilitarianism - focuses on the consequences of our actions, utilitarianism is a version of consequentialism should not care about the motive but rather the consequence. Each pleasure and each pain can be given a value with respect to these 7 determinants. These are the seven criteria that can measure pain and pleasure: John 7 hedons (7 units of pain) The appeal of bentham"s utilitarianism: three reasons why this view, although so terribly simple, is so important. It conforms to our everyday, common sense intuitions about how to act: useful for social reform, useful for defending animal rights. 98, left column: mill"s formulation of the principle of utility: pg. Distinction between higher and lower pleasures: the pleasure in persecuting = lower, mill: merely sensual pleasures = lower than intellectual pleasures (bach beats cheeseburgers, the pleasure from pursuing intellectual knowledge is a higher pleasure, pg.
