Utilitarians Ethic and Politics What is the Purpose of...

What is the purpose of human life? Describe utilitarians ethic and politic. What should Wonder Woman do? Wonder Woman just wake up this morning , and learn from the news that a boat is sinking in the Odra. and 30 people are in life threatening. She is almost outside of the window ready to go to save some lives when she realizes that in the park next to her home some friends are doing a barbecue. As she really would like to go the barbecue she starts to have an internal struggle. What ought Wonder Woman do? Spend an hard day leading to the shore people and saving lives or enjoying the amazing sunny day while doing a barbecue in the park? Utilitarian ethic and philosophy can answer to Wonder Womans struggle. But first lets see what†¦show more content†¦But its not enough to take into account merely the consequences for me but I should take into consideration also the consequences for everyone who will be probably affected by my action. As John Mill pointed out in applying Utilitarianism I must sum up all the losses or harms to everyone who will probably be affected, and the same for all the losses or harms. If the benefits are greater than the harms its the right thing to do, if the harms are greater than the benefits its the wrong thing to do. There are different point of view about how to define what are a good and a bad consequences. Utilitarian thinkers see as a good consequences the pleasure, the happiness and the increase of well-being. On the other hand bad consequences are defined as the pain, the unhappiness and the decrease of the well-being. Happiness even if identified with pleasure , is analyzed in terms of very little hedonistic Mill distinguishes between higher pleasures and lower pleasures and so introducted a qualitative distinction between pleasures. The highest pleasure is not superior because its giving more pleasure, but for the fact that it is this and not that pleasure. The criterion to distinguish the quality of pleasures is then given by the judgment of the knower of all pleasures. There are two Utilitarian theory Act Utilitarianism and Rule Utilitarianism.1 The Act Utilitarianism known also as the Greatest Happiness version is supported andShow MoreRelatedLaw and Justice4680 Words   |  19 Pagestheory of justice. This work has been done to distinguish the concept of justice as propounded by utilitarian’s (Aristotle[1] and Benthem[2]) vis-a-vis Rawls. Finally an analysis is done to examine how well the concept of justice given by Rawls is relevant in India, a multilayered pluralistic society. Introduction: Justice is defined as the quality of being just or fair. Justice is used to mean what is appropriate, deserved, right, fair , justice is said to be achieved when an unjust act is redressed