key words

• Utilitarianism: the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
• Principle of utility

  The choice that brings out the greatest happiness for the greatest number is the right choice
• Deontological

  Ethics focused on the intrinsic rightness and wrongness of actions
• Teleological

  Looking at the end results in order to make a conclusion about what is right and wrong
• Hedonistic calculus

  The system for calculating the amount of pain or pleasure generated
• Consequentialism

  Ethical theories that see morality as driven by the consequences, rather than actions or character those concerned
• Quantitative

  Focused on quantity
• Qualitative

  focused on the quality
• Act utilitarianism

  weighs up what to do at each individual occasion
• Rule utilitarianism

  weighs up what to do in principle in all occasions of a certain kind