ethics notes
bentham: pleasure and pain
moral value according to the degrees of pleasure and pain?
Bentham's position included arguments in favour of individual and economic freedom, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the end of slavery, the abolition of physical punishment (including that of children), the right to divorce, free trade, usury,[3] and the decriminalization of homosexual acts.[4][5] He also made two distinct attempts during his life to critique the death penalty.[6] (wiki)
pleasure and pain as both the instrument and ends of policy.
utilitarian
opposed to natural laws and natural rights.
pleasure and pain are both tools of the governance to bring their people under rule.
pleasure and pain are also... the ends of the people one to be sought and the other avoided. Hedonistic calculus.
To a person considered by himself, the value of a pleasure or pain considered by itself, will be greater or less, according to the four following circumstances:[1]
1. Its intensity.
2. Its duration.
3. Its certainty or uncertainty.
4. Its propinquity or remoteness.
propinquity?
:nearness or proximity. good bloody word!
5. Its fecundity, or the chance it has of being followed by sensations of the same kind: that is, pleasures, if it be a pleasure: pains, if it be a pain.
6. Its purity, or the chance it has of not being followed by sensations of the opposite kind: that is, pains, if it be a pleasure: pleasures, if it be a pain.
-----likelihood of consequence being like or unlike the hedonic value of the action.
-----amount of the same positive consequences -pleasure-(fecundity) or same negative ones.
-----purity, likelihood of the opposite. pleasure - pain. etc.
7. Its extent; that is, the number of persons to whom it extends; or (in other words) who are affected by it.
--utilitarian principle!
greates good for greatest number of people. social hedonism or altruism.
ah HA! here are the hedons and dolors
1 util. (hedon) = 6 minutes of average pleasure.
1 anti - util? (dolor) = 6 minutes average displeasure.
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party: 10u = 1hr
intensity: 7
Duration: 6 hrs(20)
certainty: 6
propinquity: 5
fecundity: 15
purity: -20
pleasure follows pleasure seldom, pain often.
oh british philosophers, how silly are the words you use.
problems of congress, small issue to big issue. no thought of consequence to system of law, only accounting for the specific instance.
hedonic calculus.
hedons and dolors?
He calls for legislators to determine whether punishment creates an even more evil offense. Instead of suppressing the evil acts, Bentham is arguing that certain unnecessary laws and punishments could ultimately lead to new and more dangerous vices than those being punished to begin with. -----Bentham follows these statements with explanations on how antiquity, religion, reproach of innovation, metaphor, fiction, fancy, antipathy and sympathy, begging the question, and imaginary law are not justification for the creation of legislature.----
ha!
how true, if only people listen.
we cannot seek to maintain a system becoming so entangled in the trappings of religious individuals and all the other crap.
A. pleasure single person
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criteria 1 intensity
2 duration
3 certainty
4 propinquity
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Tendency of action. other pleasures and pains
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5 fecundity
criteria. 6 purity
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pleasure other people
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7. extent
criteria
moral value according to the degrees of pleasure and pain?
Bentham's position included arguments in favour of individual and economic freedom, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the end of slavery, the abolition of physical punishment (including that of children), the right to divorce, free trade, usury,[3] and the decriminalization of homosexual acts.[4][5] He also made two distinct attempts during his life to critique the death penalty.[6] (wiki)
pleasure and pain as both the instrument and ends of policy.
utilitarian
opposed to natural laws and natural rights.
pleasure and pain are both tools of the governance to bring their people under rule.
pleasure and pain are also... the ends of the people one to be sought and the other avoided. Hedonistic calculus.
To a person considered by himself, the value of a pleasure or pain considered by itself, will be greater or less, according to the four following circumstances:[1]
1. Its intensity.
2. Its duration.
3. Its certainty or uncertainty.
4. Its propinquity or remoteness.
propinquity?
:nearness or proximity. good bloody word!
5. Its fecundity, or the chance it has of being followed by sensations of the same kind: that is, pleasures, if it be a pleasure: pains, if it be a pain.
6. Its purity, or the chance it has of not being followed by sensations of the opposite kind: that is, pains, if it be a pleasure: pleasures, if it be a pain.
-----likelihood of consequence being like or unlike the hedonic value of the action.
-----amount of the same positive consequences -pleasure-(fecundity) or same negative ones.
-----purity, likelihood of the opposite. pleasure - pain. etc.
7. Its extent; that is, the number of persons to whom it extends; or (in other words) who are affected by it.
--utilitarian principle!
greates good for greatest number of people. social hedonism or altruism.
ah HA! here are the hedons and dolors
1 util. (hedon) = 6 minutes of average pleasure.
1 anti - util? (dolor) = 6 minutes average displeasure.
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===========
_______________
party: 10u = 1hr
intensity: 7
Duration: 6 hrs(20)
certainty: 6
propinquity: 5
fecundity: 15
purity: -20
pleasure follows pleasure seldom, pain often.
oh british philosophers, how silly are the words you use.
problems of congress, small issue to big issue. no thought of consequence to system of law, only accounting for the specific instance.
hedonic calculus.
hedons and dolors?
He calls for legislators to determine whether punishment creates an even more evil offense. Instead of suppressing the evil acts, Bentham is arguing that certain unnecessary laws and punishments could ultimately lead to new and more dangerous vices than those being punished to begin with. -----Bentham follows these statements with explanations on how antiquity, religion, reproach of innovation, metaphor, fiction, fancy, antipathy and sympathy, begging the question, and imaginary law are not justification for the creation of legislature.----
ha!
how true, if only people listen.
we cannot seek to maintain a system becoming so entangled in the trappings of religious individuals and all the other crap.
A. pleasure single person
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criteria 1 intensity
2 duration
3 certainty
4 propinquity
------------------------------------------
Tendency of action. other pleasures and pains
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5 fecundity
criteria. 6 purity
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pleasure other people
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7. extent
criteria