
Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Principle of Utility
In order to make use of something like the principle of utility, you have to make a bunch of assumptions about human nature. The principle of utility really is something that i think was limited in scopeut whether intentionally or unintentionally,. by these guys to a certain type of society that they happen to be in. It doesn't seemed to me to be something that's particularly good for cross cultural analysis and so forth.
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