Utilitarianism - additional info to Bentham's views

Question 1

It’s not all about your own happiness

Answer 1

Bentham believed that a moral agent should do the action that creates more pleasure than pain even if it results in their own unhappiness

Question 2

create the greatest happiness even at our own death

Answer 2

Bentham argues moral agents should try to create happiness even up to the point of their own death

Question 3

negative act utilitarianism

Answer 3

if all possible actions would bring about more pain than pleasure; you have to do the action that would bring about the least amount of pain.

Question 4

quantity of happiness

Answer 4

Bentham thought the quantity of happiness was important in his act utilitarianism not the quality of it because he didn’t thing that one from of happiness was superior to another.