utilitarianism
Title: utilitarianism
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1324 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
utilitarianism
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1324 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Utilitarianism
By: Anonymous
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 inevaluating 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
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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.
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