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    Chiara B. Castro presented on the ethics of utilitarianism and hedonism. [1] Hedonism's view that well-being is solely determined by pleasure is problematic as other factors also impact well-being. [2] Utilitarianism defines ethical actions as those that maximize societal good, while hedonism more narrowly defines good as pleasure. [3] Hedonism holds that actions increasing pleasure and decreasing pain are ethical.

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    Chiara B. Castro presented on the ethics of utilitarianism and hedonism. [1] Hedonism's view that well-being is solely determined by pleasure is problematic as other factors also impact well-being. [2] Utilitarianism defines ethical actions as those that maximize societal good, while hedonism more narrowly defines good as pleasure. [3] Hedonism holds that actions increasing pleasure and decreasing pain are ethical.

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    Chiara B. Castro presented on the ethics of utilitarianism and hedonism. [1] Hedonism's view that well-being is solely determined by pleasure is problematic as other factors also impact well-being. [2] Utilitarianism defines ethical actions as those that maximize societal good, while hedonism more narrowly defines good as pleasure. [3] Hedonism holds that actions increasing pleasure and decreasing pain are ethical.

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    PRESENTER: Chiara B. Castro


    TOPIC: Ethics of Utilitarianism and Hedonism
    5 MAJOR POINTS:

    1. One important problem for Hedonism is that our well- being seems to be affected by
    more than just the total pleasure in our lives. It may be the case that you enjoy gaining a
    new qualification, but there seems to be more to the value of this event than merely the
    pleasure producted.
    2.  Utilitarianism says ethical actions are ones that maximise the overall good of a
    society, hedonism takes it a step further by defining 'good' as pleasure. There are
    different perspectives on what pleasure and pain really mean. For Epicurus, the ancient
    Greek philosopher, pleasure was the absence of pain.
    3. Hedonism is a philosophy that regards pleasure and happiness as the most beneficial
    outcome of an action. More pleasure and less pain is ethical. More pain and less
    pleasure is not.

    4. Utilitarians believe that the purpose of morality is to make life better by increasing
    the amount of good things (such as pleasure and happiness) in the world and
    decreasing the amount of bad things (such as pain and unhappiness).
    5. Utilitarianism: social hedonism; the good is what produces the greatest amount of
    happiness for the greatest number of people (including oneself), even if it causes
    unhappiness to oneself.

    5 CITATION:

    1. We recognize pleasure as the good innate in us, and from pleasure we begin every
    act choice and avoidance, and to pleasure we return again,
    Using the feeling as the standard by which we judge every good.

    - Epicurus (921-270 BC)-


    2. According to this theory, psychological pleasures can themselves count as
    intrinsically good for a person.
    -Fred Feldman (1941-)
    3. Attacked the hedonistic idea that pleasure is the only good by testing our
    intituitions via a now famous thought- experiment.
    -Robert Nozick (1938-2002)
    4. A utilitarian theory which assumes that the rightness of an action depends entirely
    on the amount of pleasures it tends to produced and the
    Amount of pleasure it tends to produce and the amount of pain it tends to prevent.
    - Jeremy Bentham ( 1748-1832)
    5. Everybody is to count for one, and nobody for more than one.
    - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

    Explaination:

    1. Therefore, the more pleasure that a person experiences in their life then the
    better their life goes, and vice versa. And pleasure is
    Always good for a person in and of itself, irrespective of the cause or the context
    of the pleasure.

    2. While reading a book would not seem to produce pleasure in a physical way, a
    hedonist may value the psychological pleasure associated with
    That act of reading and thus accept that it can improve a person’s well-being.

    3. This implies that we want more than just the happiness that the experience
    machine would be be able to supply.

    4. Bentham describes the good not only as pleasure, but also as happiness,
    benefit, advantage, etc., he treats these concepts as more or less synonymous,
    and seems to think of them as reducible to pleasure.

    5. In keeping with the enlightenment thinking the hedonic calculus was a rational
    and scientific way to measure pleasure. Bentham also claimed that goodness
    could be empirically (through experience ) proven.

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