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Explain the development of Utilitarianism and the criticisms it faces.
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Religious Studies essay. Explain the development of Utilitarianism and the criticisms it faces. Teleological is a type of ethical theory. This is when the morality of action is decided by the goodness or badness of the consequences. People who take this approach are called teleologists. The theory of utilitarianism was set by a man called Jeremy Bentham. He was a man of extrodinary intellectual gifts. At the age of three he began to study Latin. At five years old French and in 1763 at the age of 16 he took he took his degree at Oxford. Bentham believed that no actions were good in themselves, there value considered that those actions which resulted in the greatest pleasure for the greatest number ought to be performed, we ought to seek to create pleasure. Bentham realised that fro such a view to work it must be possible to measure pleasure. He offered the following as a hedonic calculus. 1)...
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