Abstract
According to the meaning we give to ?actions', we get two different theories under Utilitarianism. And there is a great debate between those two schools of utilitarianism about how exactly the individual utilitarian should make his moral decisions.
The choice for the individual is between the principles of act-utilitarianism, which tells that the rightness or wrongness of a single action is to be judged by the action's consequences, and those of rule-utilitarianism, which tells that the action should be judged by a set of established rules, which are designed to produce the best consequences.
In this essay, I will first highlight the differences between act- and rule-utilitarianism, defining those two theories, before showing how they differ; then I will identify if rule-utilitarianism can succeed where act-utilitarianism has failed and identify objections made to each of them.
