Activity 1: YOU'RE MY WELFARE!

Direction: Go online and look for an instance where animal rights and welfare can be considered an issue.

a. What is the issue that you identified? Detail your findings and opinion.

b. If you have an animal, what kind of welfare will you show to it? Show it by a means of a drawing.
 Activity #2 (Midterm)

Using a Venn diagram, distinguish the two utilitarian models, the quantitative model of
Jeremy Bentham and the qualitative model of John Stuart Mi

Jeremy Bentham (Quantitative) John Stuart Mill (Qualitative)

 advocated a quantitative  Mill argued that certain
hedonism in order to assess the “pleasures” and “pains” were of
moral worth of an action- it being greater consequence than
good as far as it promoted others, even if there was no
pleasure, and bad as far as it quantifiable proof of their
promoted pain. ... For example, increased importance. He argued
its egalitarian nature meant that that “higher pleasures” could only
be recognized by those who
no particular pleasure was worth
have experienced them.
more than another.
 Qualitative utilitarian’s must consider
 Quantitative utilitarianism is
both quality and quantity.
 However, considering these objections
concerned with aggregate utility
may lead us to a more plausible
maximization (i.e., maximizing the
interpretation of Mill's views, according
overall happiness of everyone) and
to which the quality of pleasures, along
uses a hedonic calculus to determine with their quantity, contributes towards
the rightness or wrongness of happiness. There is no need to suppose
actions. that ‘higher pleasures’ must be lexically
preferred to lower ones, or even to be
dogmatic about which pleasures are
higher.