Knowledge Themes

Principle of Utility

Greatest Happiness Principle

Hedonic Calculus

Quantitative vs Qualitative Pleasures

Higher and Lower Pleasures

Act Utilitarianism

Rule Utilitarianism

Consequentialism and Teleology

Impartiality and Agent-neutrality

Public Utility in Legislation

Harm Principle

Tyranny of the Majority

Social Welfare Economics

Rights and Justice in Utilitarianism

Preference Utilitarianism

Structural Subtopics

Jeremy Bentham's Principle of Utility
John Stuart Mill's Qualitative Utilitarianism
Differences between quantitative and qualitative hedonism
Seven criteria of the Hedonic Calculus
Concept of higher and lower pleasures
Act utilitarianism vs Rule utilitarianism
Application of utilitarianism in public policy and legislation
Criticisms of utilitarianism including the pig philosophy and rights-based objections
Competent judges and the preference for higher pleasures
Relationship between individual liberty and utility in Mill's thought
Distinction between intensity and quality of pleasure
Limitations of the greatest happiness principle in ethical decision-making

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