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Bentham says that we are sometimes not motivated by any conceivable pain or pleasure.
Act Utilitarianism says, roughly, that individual actions should aim to maximize overall utility.
Bentham at least suggests that a moral theory based on sympathy is a theory of caprice.
Bentham says that the four sanctions of utility are different in kind.
5Question
Bentham says that fear is the promise of pain.
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Political pleasure comes from supernatural sources.
7Question
A principle contrary to the principle of utility can be contrary to it all the time or just sometimes.
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If I give pursue pleasure that is less likely instead of one that is more likely, ceteris paribus, I am violating Bentham’s principle of fecundity.
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If I avoid pain that is less intense and suffer one that is more intense, all things equal, I am violating Bentham’s principle of intensity.
10Question
Physical pleasure is a factor in Bentham’s utility calculus.
Bentham says that communities are fictitious bodies.
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If I suffer pain because I drink too much alcohol, this pain comes from physical sanction.
13Question
Bentham says that we can use common sense to figure out what is right.
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Aggregation is a principle that says we can combine pleasures and pains of different people.
15Question
Bentham says that inculcating moral virtue is the goal of good political legislation.
Bentham says that idleness is the mother of vice and misery.
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Bentham says that we need to consider the number of people who will feel pleasure or pain when we attempt to determine what is right.
18Question
Interactions from individual dispositions are moral pleasures.
Bentham says that our only two masters are pleasure and pain.
20Question
Bentham says that a moral system based on sympathy and antipathy would be an objective moral theory.