ANSC 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Tom Regan, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Animal Science
• Course: ANSC 1210
• Professor: Ian Duncan

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04/02/2013 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Multiple choice, short answers, diagrams (same format as the midterm) Mainly on the material covered after the midterm (but still need to know the principles from the first half of the course) According to bennett (1997), cost-benefit analysis involves weighing benefits to society against costs in terms of a common monetary unit and then assessing whether a policy appears worthwhile or not. Bennett (1997) likens this process to bentham"s utility. Greatest happiness and greatest wealth are not necessarily the same thing. E. f. schumacher (1974) wrote about cost-benefit analysis in small is beautiful (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Major philosophies with animals: animal rights and utilitarianism. Utilitarianism: jeremy bentham (1789), john stuart mill (1863), peter singer (1975) Rights for human beings is a much older idea than utilitarianism, but no one thought of applying rights to animals until.