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The first four variables (intensity, duration, certainty, and propinquity) show the value of the
pleasure
The first four variables (intensity, duration, certainty, and propinquity) show the value of the pleasure or the
pain "considered by itself"
This phrase implies Bentham did not see pleasure and pain as
polar concepts or contraries.
The next two variables (fecundity and purity) are (blank) of the event or (blank)produced by the pleasure or pain
properties,action
The next two variables (fecundity and purity) are properties of the event or action produced by the pleasure or pain-—(blank)of the pleasure or pain, itself..
not properties
· 7 Variables of Hedonic Calculus
Intensity
Duration
Certainty
Propinquity
Fecundity
Purity
Extent
1. How intense is the pleasure or pain?
Intensity
What is the probability that the pleasure or pain will occur?
Certainty
1. How long does does the pleasure of pain last?
Duration
How far off in the future is the pleasure or pain?
Propinquity
1. What is the probability that the pain will lead to other pains?
Purity
What is the probability that the pleasure will lead to other pleasures?
Fecundity
1. How many persons are affected by the pleasure?
Extent
They must: 1) understand that they need a process of
justification
How then do people proceed to articulate norms of human behaviour? They must
1) understand that they need a process of justification (explaining why they believe what they do)
2) process of consensus-building (opinion and will formation).
explaining why they believe what they do
) understand that they need a process of justification
opinion and will formation
process of consensus-building
The outcome of this is a shared understanding of the good-not a compromise based on what is convenient of defined by the powerful but a shared or communally accepted understanding of the
good
? An imperative is a
command
There are two types of imperatives
1. Hypothetical Imperatives
2. Categorical Imperatives
