PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Stuart Mill, Egotism, Relativism
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Phil 1101 - lecture 7 - ethics, part 2: utilitarianism developed, and relativism. Aso is an algorithm for maximizing subjective expected utility. It is neutral as between egoism and utilitarianism. Both egoism and utilitarianism may be seen as elucidating the aso approach with a particular view of the relation between morality and prudence. iclicker #1. What would the egoist do: stop and save the drowning man, keep driving to his appointment, randomize between the above choices. This means that in determining the moral status of an action from the utilitarian point of the several members who compose it. view, social happiness is a strict function of that of its members. Bentham treats the following as more or less equivalent: benefit, advantage, pleasure, No special weight is put here on the ideas of . A critic might change bentham"s version of utilitarianism would have us drop some or. A prodigy, starting greek at age three.
