Hello, you're listening to the partially examined life?

Just kidding, this is episode 5 of the pan sidecast where we'll be discussing utilitarianism.

Normative ethics is the branch of philosophy that considers how one ought to act morally speaking.

Utilitarianism is one of the most powerful and persuasive approaches to normative ethics in the history of philosophy.

Utilitarians argue that we ought to bring about the greatest amount of good for the greatest

number of people. Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, the founders of utilitarianism, identified

the good with pleasure. As a teleological branch of ethics, a utilitarian will argue that the right action

should be understood in terms of its consequences. Please bear in mind, this is just part one of our

three-part series on utilitarianism. That's right, we're doing three full episodes of it. Over the

course of these three episodes, I'll just break down the contents for you.

In part one, we're going to be doing Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism. In part two, we're going to

be looking at John Stuart Mill and utilitarianism. In part three, it's Peter Singer and preference

utilitarianism. And in part four, yep, you guessed it. It's general analysis and discussion.

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That way you'll get access to part two, part three, as and when they're released, and we'll

maximise the greatest happiness for everyone together.

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