How to pronounce "utilitarianism"

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Is this a viable interpretation of the data or the text? And so on.

I'm not interested really in arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes

or who has to take out the garbage.

Yeah, we have those arguments, too.

I tend to win those arguments, because I know the tricks.

But those aren't the important arguments.

I'm interested in academic arguments,

and here are the things that puzzle me.

First, what do good arguers win when they win an argument?

What do I win if I convince you

that utilitarianism isn't really the right framework

for thinking about ethical theories?

What do we win when we win an argument?

Even before that,

what does it matter to me

whether you have this idea that Kant's theory works

or Mill is the right ethicist to follow?

It's no skin off my back

whether you think functionalism is a viable theory of mind.

So why do we even try to argue?

Why do we try to convince other people

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util-i-tar-i-an-ism

6 syllables

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Definition of "utilitarianism"

Noun

A system of ethics based on the premise that something's value may be measured by its usefulness.
The theory that action should be directed toward achieving the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of people" (hedonistic universalism), or one of various related theories.

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utilitarian functionalism morality egalitarianism humanism altruism liberalism pragmatism

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