Utility—how do utilitarians define it?/ Greatest Happiness Principle (GHP) prescribes/ Hedonic calculus like we did in class (the harms/benefits/utility table)

Utility

happiness

better world is a world with more utility in it (well-being or welfare)

Greatest Happiness Principle

actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness

absence of pain

Simple hedonic calculus

Start at zero utility and subtract utility with harm and add with benefits

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