What is Utilitarianism?

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory founded by founded by Jeremy Bentham and developed and popularized by John Stuart Mill.

It is a form of consequentialist ethics and, as its name suggests, is founded on the principle of utility (i.e. that property an object that tends to produce pleasure or happiness and prevents pain or unhappiness).

The aim of utilitarianism is to maximize utility, or the happiness and wellbeing of all affected individuals.

As such, for utilitarianism, an act is morally good if it produces the greatest happiness or pleasure to the greatest number of people, and bad if it produces more pain than pleasure to the greatest number of people.

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0:00 Intro
0:03 What is Utilitarianism?
1:01 An Example
1:36 Jeremy Bentham's Model of Utilitarianism
2:10 The Felicific Calculus

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