Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that tries to differentiate right from wrong by focusing

exclusively on the results of actions. It is a version of consequentialism. Utilitarianism

determines that the most ethical option is the one that produces the greatest benefit for the
greatest number of people.

Utilitarianism determines that the most ethical option is the one that produces the greatest
benefit for the greatest number of people.

the interests of the majority subordinate the rights of minorities and fails to avoid unfair social
distributions.

English Jeremy Bentham.

To me, one of the juiciest criticisms of this theory is the one referred to in that reduces the
subtleties of human life to the bare calculation of the pleasures of animals, without concern
as to how such pleasures are produced.

the main weakness is because it comes face to face with the principle of justice in addition to
forgetting the application of moral principles, the relevant virtues and human rights. It is very
harmful and it is a defective decision to carry out unfair actions that athough cause
happiness to many people. Because some things should never be done, regardless of the
positive consequences that might ensue.

Individualism is a philosophical conception according to which the basic unit of any human
group or of any society is the individual subject. Individualism strictly implies the aspect of
people that the morality of their actions is determined in the desire to obtain the good and
self-interest regardless of the other or the collective.

theoretically if each individual pursues his own happiness, the sum of all of them will make
the group or society happy by itself.

Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and thus independence and
self-sufficiency while opposing most outside interventions into personal choices.