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    The document discusses Jeremy Bentham's principle of utility, which states that an action is right if it maximizes happiness or pleasure and minimizes pain or unhappiness. It lists criteria for measuring utility, including intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, and extent. The criteria are applied to a scenario involving five persons and one person to determine the maximum utility.

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    The document discusses Jeremy Bentham's principle of utility, which states that an action is right if it maximizes happiness or pleasure and minimizes pain or unhappiness. It lists criteria for measuring utility, including intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, and extent. The criteria are applied to a scenario involving five persons and one person to determine the maximum utility.

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    GROUP 3

    A THOUGHT OF
    EXPERIMENT:
    THE RUN AWAY TRAIN
    PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY BY JEREMY
    BENTHHAM

    “Concerned with quantity of pleasure”


    CRITERIA FIVE PERSONS ONE PERSON
    INTENSITY ✅ 

    DURATION ✅ 

    CERTAINTY ✅  ✅ 

    PROPINQUITY ✅ 

    FECUNDITY ✅ 

    PURITY ✅ 

    EXTENT ✅ 
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