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Moral Decision Making Bentham Vs Kant (The Categorical Imperative…

- - - - Strengths on animal & child rights
        Since pleasure and pain are mesuarble, clearly they are measurable in animals and s0 are members of the moral community. He argued that they are more intellegent than the least intellegent human and 'more rational and conversable' than any month old infant.
      - The Hedonic/ Felicific calculus gives a rational, scientifc and moral based scale to make decisions.IT sees whether it can balance of pklaures over pain,
        'the greatest good for the greatest number' Hutcheson.
    - - response: most morals situations we encounter are 'general classes of acts', and we know very well that acts such a murder cause pain.
      - ignore minority rights (can justify gamg rape eg)
        never justified, misunderstood by hedonic calculus which covers the interests of all those concerned. & because eof his strong social conscious, Benthem was a firm believer that all had a right to pleasure, and no one is born with more of a right than others. This especially included the 'provilaged' and those in power who took more than they needed -who he was very critical of.
        The maximum benefit to the maximum number of people.
        democratic: treated everyone alike
        
        Howeveer, odes this mean a rapist/ serial killer desrves enugh happiness as others and thus shouldnt be put in prison for their punishemnts.
      - It is based on the insist that people are motivated by please are to avoid pain, and that people rationally make life decisions
        Benetham, today would be considered a 'scoial scientst' starting form a top-to-bottom approuch: looking how people behve and what motives them to make choices -both for themselves and those they care about.
        "Nature has placed mankind under the governence of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure,... they given us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think."