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Utilitianism (Preference Utilitarianism(Set out to fulfill peoples…

- - - - Empirical as people are most happy when they get what they want but this may clash with those of others therefore we need to "stand in someone else shoes"and therefore should act impartial when making detonations effecting multiple people.
- - - - "it is better to be a being satisfied than a pig satisfied. Better Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfy."
- - - - Objective was to messure the value to pleasures
        and pains and therefore developed the Hedonic calculus which attempts to messure
      - Hedonic calculus
        
        Intesity
        
        Duration
        3.Certainty
        
        Propinquity(how soon it will happen)
        
        Fecundity (will it produce other pains)
        
        Purity( will it lead to other pleasures)
      - Bentham belives this should be used by adding up
        the total pains and plesures and seeing which side weights the most
      - Other additions
        -all pains and plesures are equal in the effect
        -the type of plessure is irrelivant
        -One could use a rule pf thumb if it is simular to anouther
        -Pain should be reduced before pleasure increase
    - - It is close to how Jesus made moral detions
      - It takes into account that each detion needs a different moral detion
      - Avoids rule conflictions and always gives a clear answer
      - Based upon principles instead of rules makes it easy to follow and flexible
    - - Takes time to work out decitions
      - Decitions can be influenced by irrelivent subjects
      - An individual may not have suffient information to make a detion