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14 cards from this deck
Jeremy Bentham
Improve social conditions & reduce aristocratic power/privilege
An action is good if it leads to greatest happiness for greatest number
Consequentialist theory
Pain and pleasure
Produces benefit/advantage or prevents mischief/pain
Lacks sympathy, promotes immoral behaviour by devaluing compassion
Shows refined sympathy, recognises needs of many children
Impractical due to human emotions like empathy
Human nature, making it easy to apply
Associates good and moral with pleasure
Horrible acts of evil (e.g., gang rape) if justified by more pleasure
Provides little moral guidance or structure
We cannot predict consequences of our actions
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