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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi

The Search for Ethical Values
Utilitarianism

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1

Another name for teleological ethics is .
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ethics judges the moral rightness or wrongness of an act in terms of the intrinsic moral value of the act itself.
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Something has value if its desirability is in terms of other ends it achieves.
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The doctrine of hedonism is the claim that the only causes operating in human behavior are the desires to obtain pleasure and avoid pain.
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The theory that the moral rightness or wrongness of an action is a function of the amount of pleasure or pain it produces is the theory called .