![]() ![]() ![]() It would be nice if the actor benefits as well but it is the interests of the many and the most over the one that is what Utility is about. The morally good thing to do is whatever promotes the greatest utility even if the individual acting will not prosper or be satisfied. However, Utility's aim is increasing the total amount of satisfaction or happiness for the greatest number of people and not just oneself. Utility is a principle of the good which locates moral goodness in the feelings of humans and that makes it the form of Hedonism. Expand beyond the idea of pleasure to that of satisfying the interests of people and you have the more complete development of the idea of what consequences of human action will determine the moral correctness of that act. Instead of that being the good which serves one's own interest and provides for one's own pleasure, the Utilitarian’s take that which produces the greatest amount of pleasure (Hedonism-Physical and emotional) for the greatest number of people to be the good. To overcome the obvious defects of using Egoism as a moral guide, Utilitarianism approaches the question of the good from an opposing point of view.
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