Jommel Gonzales

CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS

By:

James E. White

“Thus right actions are those that produce the greatest possible balance of happiness over unhappiness, with each person’s happiness counted as equally important.”

Learning Expectations:

            This chapter indicate the definition of utilitarianism and how it affects our interaction with other people.

Utilitarianism – John Stuart Mill

Review:

            The author said that the most grateful to the feelings can exist in the moral attributes and it has needs of judgement respecting the quality of pleasures. Pleasures are standardized, and pain is always worth feelings of judgment that derived from the higher persons which is subjected to them.

             In accordance to the authors perspective there are greater objects to compass the individual principals on his immediate response to the problems might encounter. The consequences would remain indifferent to the smallest degree of happiness which is desirable on itself. But, what does the good means if desires happens on the same way if you are not consider the things which is annexed to conception of happiness?

Lesson Learned:

            I learned that being happy is not quite good at all. You must recognize first the importance of having a certain virtue to overcome the things you might encounter in your life.

Integrative Questions:

1. What is happiness behind the theory of utilitarianism?
2. What is utilitarianism?
3. What is moral obligation?
4. How is morality related to utilitarianism?
5. What is utilitarian morality?