Utilitarianism
Title: Utilitarianism
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1581 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Utilitarianism
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1581 | Pages: 6 (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 Mill's 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.