Mill's Utilitarianism, Sacrifice the innocent for the common good?
Title: Mill's Utilitarianism, Sacrifice the innocent for the common good?
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1325 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Mill's Utilitarianism, Sacrifice the innocent for the common good?
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1325 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
When faced with a moral dilemma, utilitarianism identifies the
appropriate considerations, but offers no realistic way to gather the
necessary information to make the required calculations. This lack of
information is a problem both in evaluating the welfare issues and in
evaluating the consequentialist issues which utilitarianism requires be
weighed when making moral decisions. Utilitarianism attempts to solve
both of these difficulties by appealing to experience; however, no
method of reconciling an individual decision with
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not help in making the moral decision.
The information necessary to calculate all of the considerations
identified by utilitarianism is not available. Furthermore, what is
required is a method of comparing and weighing the considerations, and
this method is not defined by utilitarianism. In the end, the decision
maker is still left to make the decision based on internal moral
feelings of what is right and what is wrong which do not come from
utilitarianism.