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Chapter 4 ETCI
Professor Douglas Olena
Utilitarianism
48 Empiricist:
We only know what is good by observation or
by appeal to experience.
Optimist:
“All grand sources of human suffering are in a
great degree, many of them almost entirely,
conquerable by human care and effort.”
The Principle of Utility
49 Pleasures:
physical pleasures: the satisfaction of hunger
satisfaction of a job well done
aesthetic pleasures: a sunset
intellectual pleasures
Calculating Happiness
Preference Utilitarianism
Cost-Benefit Analysis