How easy or hard is to to apply the utilitarian hedonistic calculus ? Does performing these calculations require us to know exactly what will happen in the future? If not, how can we be confident that we understand what the consequences of a proposed action will be?
Monday 19 May 2014
What, according to Mill, is greatest happiness principle? Exactly how does he think that principle can be used to determine whether a proposed course of action would be the right or the wrong thing to do? How easy or hard is to to apply the utilitarian hedonistic calculus ? Does performing these calculations require us to know exactly what will happen in the future? If not, how can we be confident that we understand what the consequences of a proposed action will be?
c Exactly how
does he think that principle can be used to determine whether a proposed
course of action would be the right or the wrong thing to do?
How easy or hard is to to apply the utilitarian hedonistic calculus ? Does performing these calculations require us to know exactly what will happen in the future? If not, how can we be confident that we understand what the consequences of a proposed action will be?
How easy or hard is to to apply the utilitarian hedonistic calculus ? Does performing these calculations require us to know exactly what will happen in the future? If not, how can we be confident that we understand what the consequences of a proposed action will be?
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