Hedonic Calculus: The Seven Stage Vectors

Every day actions determine particular outcomes, weather they are good or bad they have an effect on not only the person insinuating these actions, but those around witnessing of a part of these actions conducted. Understanding moral reasoning behind each persons actions can help control the outcomes of each situation and the action. Hedonic calculus is about a seven stage vector it is used in order to easily conduct a primary action and determine the amount of happiness and sadness provided by that action to the most amount of people. The theory relates with utilitarianism, consequentialism, pain and pleasure and teleological ethics. It is used step by step in order to accomplish a task or objective that what was first thought out to be the
In order to accomplish a task to create the most amount of pleasure to the most amounts of people, the seven stage vector is used. The seven steps in order are Intensity, Duration, Certainty or uncertainty, Propinquity, Fecundity, Purity and Extent (Rzepka & Araki, 2013). Discussing and Understanding these vectors will make it easier to create the most amounts of pleasure and avoid pain. The first vector is intensity, it is used in order to estimate the level of pleasure and pain and it is asked to the degree of intensity an activity was. An example of this is to recognize emotive words and adverbs when conducting a questionnaire and identifying intensifiers such as very and a lot (Rzepka & Araki, 2013). Duration is the time measurement of the estimated pleasure, and understanding how to implement the question is difficult asking how long the pleasure would last is an easy way to ask however it is unlikely to be able to get a definite answer. This is because it is working over a long duration and not limiting the question as it would help to reduce an extended answer, such as using temporal expression, which is to measure that particular point in time (Rzepka & Araki, 2013). Certainty and uncertainty have the probability to change a current situations state. There are a developed set of words in which prove the marking of evidentiality which are probably and certainly (Rzepka & Araki, 2013). These words help decide to level out the happiness and sadness score of the hedonic calculus. Propinquity helps to predict how soon pleasure or happiness will occur. The Duration estimation helps to search for predictable times between acts and consequences, to further detect when an action will occur sooner or later (Rzepka & Araki, 2013). Fecundity is to extend the current state of pleasure. An example of