Utilitarianism

■ In utilitarian theory, an act is considered to be

morally right if it brings the greatest good for the
greatest number. An action must do the most good
and does the least harm
(consequentialist theory)
tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and
economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill according to which an action (or type of
action) is right if it tends to promote happiness or pleasure and wrong if it tends to produce
unhappiness or pain
 ‫اس َويَ ُقو ُ‬ ‫ن النَّ‬ ‫اب ال َّ ِذي يُ ْ‬
‫صلِ ُ‬ ‫ذ ُ‬‫ك َّ‬ ‫س ْ‬
‫ال َ‬ ‫(لَ ْي َ‬
‫‪ -1‬الكذب ليس محرماً لذاته ‪ ،‬بل لما يترتب عليه‬ ‫ل‬ ‫ِ‬ ‫ح بَ ْي َ‬
‫من المفاسد ‪.‬‬ ‫خ ْي ًرا) رواه مسلم‬ ‫مي َ‬ ‫خ ْي ًرا َويَ ْن ِ‬
‫َ‬
‫‪ -2‬إذا كان الكذب سيؤدي إلى دفع مفسدة‬ ‫‪"The liar is not the one who reconciles between‬‬
‫أعظم ‪ ،‬أو جلب مصلحة أكبر ‪ :‬صار جائزاً حينئذ ‪.‬‬ ‫"‪people and speaks good and promotes good.‬‬
 A woman was near death from a special kind of
cancer. There was one drug that the doctors
thought might save her. It was a form of raduim
that a druggist in the same town had recently
discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but
the druggist was charging ten times what the drug
cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium
druggist's and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug.
The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to
everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he
dilemma: could only get together about $1,000 which is half
of what it cost.

Heinz He told the druggist that his wife was dying and
asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later.
But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug
and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz
Steals the got desperate and broke into the man's store to
steal the drug for his wife.

Drug Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the
drug for his wife? Why or why not?

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