1. What is the difference between hedonistic and eudaimonistic utilitarianism?

2. In which way is pleasure different from happiness?

4. Are there other accounts of utility? explain. Is there consensus on the best criteria for utility?

5. How do you maximize utility? p. 136
Despite its sensitivity to particular cases, or perhaps because of it, act utilitarianism
is open to a number of objections. Let’s briefly consider three: (1) the
objection that it is too time-consuming to calculate the consequences of each
individual action; (2) a parallel objection that it is too difficult to predict the
consequences of individual actions, especially the long-term consequences; and
(3) the argument that act utilitarianism opens the door to abuses, especially to
abuses of justice, because of its neglect of general moral rules.

6. What's your take on the above paragraph?

7. Read the counters on p. 143, p. 144. a) is "predicting" a limited standard? b) the Sandra West example, c) the Chief of police example,

8. Explain rule utilitarianism.

Exploring here is the tension between ACT and RULE utilitarianism:
Rule utilitarians must maintain either that their rules are without qualifications or else that their rules do have very specific qualifications. If their rules are without qualifications, then they are rule worshipers according to act utilitarians, for they say we should follow the rule at any cost, even when it produces bad consequences.
9. Do you agree? if so, which one to pick out?

10. Take a look at examples on page 149. We'll discuss them in class.

11. Take a look at the table on CONSEQUENTIALISM pn p. 149, as it pertains to the different theories studied so far.

12. Are utilitarians allowed to give any special weight to consequences that would affect them personally when happiness to the majority is at stake?

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

Shape 1 and shape 2 are plotted on a coordinate plane. which statement about the shapes is true? a. shape 1 and shape 2 are not congruent.b. a translation will prove that shape 2 is congruent to shape 1.c. a rotation and a translation will prove that shape 2 is congruent to shape 1.d. a reflection, a rotation, and a translation will prove that shape 2 is congruent to shape 1.

What is the primary purpose of this blog? to inform people about the new sports park to entertain people with details about the warbler to persuade people to protect the warbler to convince people to support the city council