| rdfs:comment | - Increases the duration of Greater Good and heals allies while it is active.
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* AP Cost : 12
* Increases the duration of "Greater Good" by 5 seconds. Additionally, while "Greater Good" is active, all group members gain a heal over time effect that heals for 60 or 1.5%, whichever is larger. This value is not affected by your healing power or any other heal increasing effects.
- Utilitarianism is a Normative Ethical theory that proposes that the best action is the one that maximizes utility. utility The word can be defined in many ways, but it usually has to do with pleasure, happiness, and the well-being of sentient entities. Utilitarianism focuses on the outcome of an action; therefore it is a form of Consequentialism.
- Utilitarianism is a Technology in Empire: Total War.
- Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes utility, specifically defined as maximizing happiness and reducing suffering. Classic utilitarianism, as advocated by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, is hedonistic. It is now generally taken to be a form of consequentialism, although when Anscombe first introduced that term it was to distinguish between "old-fashioned Utilitarianism" and consequentialism. According to utilitarianism the moral worth of an action is determined only by its resulting outcome although there is debate over how much consideration should be given to actual consequences, foreseen consequences and intended consequences. Two influential contributors to this theory are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart M
- Utilitarianism is where you consider the welfare of the group ahead of the individuals. An example of this might be deciding what illnesses to treat. If there are two illnesses one that affects the young and one that affects the old. The most Ethical treatment to fund would be the one that affects the young as they will have more time remaining to contribute to society.
- The doctrine of Utilitarianism was first promulgated in Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation where he advocated a consequentialist ethic useful for public morality based on the idea of collating and weighing objectively verifiable data.
- Utilitarianism (also: utilism) is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all sentient beings. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome. The most influential contributors to this ideology were Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. In general usage, the term utilitarian refers to a somewhat narrow economic or pragmatic viewpoint. Philosophical utilitarianism, however, is a much broader view that encompasses all aspects of people's lives.
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| abstract | - Increases the duration of Greater Good and heals allies while it is active.
* Passive
* AP Cost : 12
* Increases the duration of "Greater Good" by 5 seconds. Additionally, while "Greater Good" is active, all group members gain a heal over time effect that heals for 60 or 1.5%, whichever is larger. This value is not affected by your healing power or any other heal increasing effects.
- Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes utility, specifically defined as maximizing happiness and reducing suffering. Classic utilitarianism, as advocated by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, is hedonistic. It is now generally taken to be a form of consequentialism, although when Anscombe first introduced that term it was to distinguish between "old-fashioned Utilitarianism" and consequentialism. According to utilitarianism the moral worth of an action is determined only by its resulting outcome although there is debate over how much consideration should be given to actual consequences, foreseen consequences and intended consequences. Two influential contributors to this theory are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. In A Fragment on Government Bentham says ‘it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong’ and describes this as a fundamental axiom. In An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation he talks of ‘the principle of utility’ but later prefers “the greatest happiness principle." Utilitarianism can be characterized as a quantitative and reductionist approach to ethics. It is a type of naturalism. It can be contrasted with deontological ethics, which does not regard the consequences of an act as a determinant of its moral worth; virtue ethics, which primarily focuses on acts and habits leading to happiness; pragmatic ethics; as well as with ethical egoism and other varieties of consequentialism. Utilitarianism has often been considered the natural ethic of a democracy operating by simple majority without protection of individual rights.
- Utilitarianism is a Normative Ethical theory that proposes that the best action is the one that maximizes utility. utility The word can be defined in many ways, but it usually has to do with pleasure, happiness, and the well-being of sentient entities. Utilitarianism focuses on the outcome of an action; therefore it is a form of Consequentialism.
- Utilitarianism is where you consider the welfare of the group ahead of the individuals. An example of this might be deciding what illnesses to treat. If there are two illnesses one that affects the young and one that affects the old. The most Ethical treatment to fund would be the one that affects the young as they will have more time remaining to contribute to society. Fundamentally, utilitarianism favours ethical decisions that result in the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. The damming of the Yangtze River is a perfect example. 1 milion were compromised, while millions more were beneficiaries. Utilitarianism holds that the best course of action is that which maximises utility, or happiness, for the greatest number of people. It would be interesting then to imagine what would have happened in Harper Lee’s literary classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, if one of the novel’s heroic characters, Atticus Finch, was an extreme utilitarian. Atticus is a respected lawyer in a small Alabama town during The Great Depression. Throughout the novel he shows that he has strong morals which he both practices and teaches to his children. The setting is a place and time of high racial tensions, but, despite pressure put on him from the townspeople, Atticus agrees to defend in court a black man who has been accused of raping a white woman. Atticus believes in the man’s innocence, but, the townspeople are very unhappy with his decision to defend the accused man. The situation turns volatile as townspeople attempt to exact vigilante justice – at times even putting Atticus’ own children in danger. Atticus has two options: defend the man’s innocence, leading to civil unrest throughout the town but bringing some small amount of comfort to the accused, the accused’s family, and Atticus’ own sense of right and wrong; or, refuse to defend the man, let him be convicted and sacrifice the ‘utility’ of a small number of people so that the rest of the townspeople’s unrest can be eased. If Atticus was a utilitarian seeking to maximise happiness or utility, would he choose not to defend the accused man and thus restore at least temporary peace to his town? Or would he view things through a wider lens, and see that his decision to defend the black man could have a positive contributory effect on the American civil rights movement that would soon be in full swing, thus adding to the utility of all future generations of African-Americans? This is one difficulty with utilitarianism: what boundaries are applied during decision making and how do those boundaries help dictate which course of action is correct?
- The doctrine of Utilitarianism was first promulgated in Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation where he advocated a consequentialist ethic useful for public morality based on the idea of collating and weighing objectively verifiable data. Bentham proposed that the goal of ethics was to maximize utility for the greatest number of people possible, focusing on equating the like interests of involved parties. Utility, to Bentham, was happiness and its counterpart, the absence of suffering. Therefore, a moral decision is one that employs an ethical cost-benefit analysis, minimizing pains and expanding pleasures.
- Utilitarianism is a Technology in Empire: Total War.
- Utilitarianism (also: utilism) is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all sentient beings. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome. The most influential contributors to this ideology were Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism was described by Bentham as "the greatest happiness or greatest felicity principle." Utility, the good to be maximized, has been defined by various thinkers as happiness or pleasure (versus suffering or pain), although preference utilitarians define it as the satisfaction of preferences. It may be described as a life stance, with happiness or pleasure being of ultimate importance. Utilitarianism can be characterised as a quantitative and reductionist approach to ethics. It can be contrasted with deontological ethics (which do not regard the consequences of an act as being a determinant of its moral worth) and virtue ethics (which focuses on character), as well as with other varieties of consequentialism. In general usage, the term utilitarian refers to a somewhat narrow economic or pragmatic viewpoint. Philosophical utilitarianism, however, is a much broader view that encompasses all aspects of people's lives.
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