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8 Cards in this Set
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No counterintuitive consequences |
Implications of counting all pleasures as equal eradicated with the differentiation between higher and lower pleasures |
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Rationality |
Rests on a personal calculation of no if people who's pleasure or happiness is maximised |
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Common sense |
Fit with our common sense view of morality makes sense that are moral worth should be attributed to some pleasure more than others, rule utilitarianism argues we should generally follow practical rules rather than act which is as the situation demands it |
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Equality |
Everyone is equally weighted in the judgement as Bentham proposed, Mill adds equal rights |
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Predicting the future |
Requirement when making decisions about morality, the future changes so it is very difficult, consequences are hard to predict |
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Elitist |
Only a competent judge, the intellectual man is capable of making decisions about morality. But this implies only the most educated man can be moral because they have experienced the best things in life |
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Ignores special responsibility |
Eg if there was only one space left in the life boat and there was a man with an HIV cure and your son, utilitarianism would say save the man because he could cure the most people, but most would save the son |
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Predicting the future |
Issues of climate change, famine, war all suggest we need an ethical theory to take into account those yet unborn |
