Assignment 7

Forio, Ginalyn F.
Assignment 7:
WRITE A PERSUASIVE ESSAY on Bentham's Utilitarianism. You may follow the steps below that will
help convince your reader of the way you think about Bentham's theory. (20 points)
Step 1 - Use a graphic organizer in gathering details such as listing, clustering, etc.
Step 2 - After reviewing your notes, express in sentences your opinion about the subject.
Step 3 - Follow the 3 main categories in stating an opinion:
1) Statements of Fact- claim that something is true or not true
2) Statements of value - claims that something does or does not have worth
3) Statements of policy - claim that something should or should not be done
Bentham's Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism theory was spread by Jeremy Bentham in 18th century and was clarified by his student
John Stuart Mill in 19th century. Utilitarians is something that thinks morality is to give high level of
happiness and pleasure and decrease bad things such as pain and unhappiness. Goodness is relating to
human well-being. Whatever makes life better and easy is consider as good and whatever makes life
worse or harm is kind of evil in this utilitarianism theory.
Utilitarianism theory consider all the good and bad consequences of behaviour or an action when the
consequences emerge during the performance or after the performance. The utilitarian upholder will
consider some alternative actions to consider the good and bad consequences of each behaviour before
deciding which one is a right action to take on. These utilitarianism theory is seeming to support the
moral truth. The rightness are depends based on the good and bad action and situation conquer in the
process.
As I said earlier, these acts of utilitarianism was spread by Jeremy Bentham. Jeremy was an English
philosopher and a political radical. Starting with moral philosophy, Jeremy Bentham call it as a principle
of the happiness or principle of the utility. The moral mandatory is where giving as much happiness as
possible to the greatest number of people, and the happiness is being determined to the pleasure and
non-appearance of the pain. Thus, Bentham writes, “By the principle of utility is meant that principle
which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency what is the same
thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness”. And Jeremy Bentham also said that
whatever that does not maximize the happiness is consider morally wrong. The rule of utilitarianism
exists when John Stuart Mill tries to save his teacher, Jeremy Bentham when Bentham’s principle of
utility is challenged by the community. Mill tried to make it as limit as possible of Bentham’s theory as
in the rule of utilitarianism. When we compare the rule of utilitarianism and the act of utility, both of
this principle is focusing on the rightness of an action. Based on the hedonism theory, this is all about
the pleasure and focus only in pleasure.
This principle is relating to the happiness and satisfaction of a person in the goods and services. The
strength of utilitarianism is to minimize the pain and maximize the happiness, and to make an individual’s
life to live better. It is also easy to reveal the principle that utilitarianism is fair and it’s principle are
widely accepted.
Then, the weakness of utilitarianism is the happiness and satisfaction cannot always be the head of the
objective in a person’s life. These theory is like humaliting human. It humiliates human as the level of
animal because these theory talks about people’s goal focuses only in pleasure.
Therefore, I conclude that we need to study Utilitarianism because it is an ethical theory that determines
right from wrong by focusing on outcomes. It is a form of consequentialism. Utilitarianism holds that the
most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greates t number. It is the only
moral framework that can be used to justify military force or war.
Reference: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/utilitarianism

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