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The ultimate good, or an increase of pleasure and decrease of pain.
What is Utility?
A means of numerically calculating the happiness/utility that will result from specific actions.
What is Felicific Calculus?
Mental/Intellectual enjoyments.
What is Higher Pleasure?
The strength of either pleasure or pain.
What is Intensity?
How quickly pleasure or pain begin as a result of specific actions.
What is Propinquity?
A philosophical approach that looks at the consequences of actions and determines right and wrong.
What is Utilitarianism?
The quality of being capable of making mistakes and being wrong.
What is Fallibility?
Physical enjoyments.
What is Lower Pleasure?
How long pleasure or pain is expected to last.
What is Duration?
The tendency of an action to be followed by sensations of the same kind.
What is Fecundity?
What is relied on as a general rule.
What is Rule Utility?
The feeling that moves one to action.
What is Motive?
Punishment resulting from laws or an outside source that produce negative utility and act as a deterrent.
What are External Sanctions Of Morality?
How definite it is that pleasure or pain will ensue from a specific action.
What is Certainty?
The tendency of actions to not be followed by sensations of the opposite kind.
What is Purity?
What is relied on when the rule results in negative utility in a particular situation.
What is Act Utility?
The action someone is proposing to do.
What is Intention?
Empathy. Negative feelings caused by causing someone else pain. Conscience. Feeling pleasure when others feel pleasure and pain when they feel pain.
What are Internal Sanctions Of Morality?
The one with authority to say which pleasures are high or low due to personal experience.
What is the Competent Judge?
A numerical measure of pleasure or pain.
What are Hedons?
The utilitarian belief that individuals should sacrifice their own happiness to promote the happiness of the greatest number
What is the Greatest Happiness Principle?
The greatest good. What determines utility. Increase of pleasure and decrease of pain.
What is Happiness?
The nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. Should stipulate that harm to others is the only thing which justifies intervening in someone’s action.
What is Social/Civil Liberty?
To assume something to be true when it actually needs to be proven.
What is Question Begging?
Happiness, or an increase of pleasure and decrease of pain.
What is the Greatest Good?