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Aims (Other qualities to utilitarianism: (Part of the inductive school…
Aims
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Main focus: 'actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness'
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The main aim:
To provide a clear moral objective which shapes society's actions and provides us with a method by which we can do so - to not only be theoretical but also to be implemented in daily living
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Positive mental states
Is it wrong to betray someone without them knowing? If there were no negative consequences to their mental state, and only positive consequences for your own?
vs. Kantian ethics
Utilitarianism and Kantian would still be different theories even if their practical implications were the same, because the reason they would give are very different