Ima Utilitarian thinks that we know how to put pleasure and pain into numerical units, using positive numbers for pleasure and negative ones for pain.
So we can just add up the numbers to find out which option has the best total consequences in terms of pleasure and pain.
Ima Utilitarian thinks that we know how to put pleasure and pain into numerical units, using positive numbers for pleasure and negative ones for pain.
So we can just add up the numbers to find out which option has the best total consequences in terms of pleasure and pain.
She thinks we don't know how to put numbers on pleasure and pain. Instead, we weigh the pleasures and pains in our minds, and see intuitively which option maximizes the balance of one over the other. She thinks that we can do this in a rough way.
Ima Utilitarian thinks that we know how to put pleasure and pain into numerical units, using positive numbers for pleasure and negative ones for pain.
So we can just add up the numbers to find out which option has the best total consequences in terms of pleasure and pain.
She thinks we don't know how to put numbers on pleasure and pain. Instead, we weigh the pleasures and pains in our minds, and see intuitively which option maximizes the balance of one over the other. She thinks that we can do this in a rough way.