1
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Hume’s famous quote
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“reason is the slave of passion”
2
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Bentham - the pursuit of pleasure and pain
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“Nature has put mankind under two sovereign masters”
3
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JS Mill - disagree
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“I’d rather be a dissatisfied human than a satisfied pig”
4
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Bentham - all pleasures are equal
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“pushpin is equal to poetry”
5
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Epicurius - agree
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“pleasure is the goal that nature has ordained for us”
6
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Francis Hutcheson - agree
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“that action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers”
7
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Louis Pojman - disagree
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Calculus causes “too many variables” - his book ‘Discovering Right and Wrong’
8
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J.Donne
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“no man is an island” - we are connected to others, our actions have concequences
Ethics - Utilitarianism
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