Chapter 16: Bentham Flashcards

(4 cards)

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Bentham’s sovereign masters:

A

pain and pleasure; which govern all human action + moral judgement

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Principle of utility

A

the principle that actions are right if they promote happiness and wrong if they produce unhappiness

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3
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Seven factors that determine the value of a pleasure or pain:

A
  • intensity
  • duration
  • certainty
  • propinquity
  • fecundity
  • purity
  • extent
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4
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How does Bentham relate property and other goods to pleasure?

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the value of property comes from the pleasures it produces or pains it prevents

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