SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following principles is the essential principle of utilitarian school of ethics?
A
Greatest Health Principle
B
Greatest Happiness Principle
C
Greatest Wealth Principle
D
Greatest Respect Principle
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1) The basic principle of Mill ‘s Utilitarianism is the greatest happiness principle (PU): an action is right insofar as it maximizes general utility, which Mill identifies with happiness.

Detailed explanation-2: -Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.

Detailed explanation-3: -The “principle of utility” is the principle that actions are to be judged by their usefulness in this sense: their tendency to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness.

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