What ways and areas of knowing does utilitarianism use?

[mal]

 

I know it obviously uses reason, and maybe intuition, but what else is there? And how?

 

and in areas of knowledge I kind of figured that it is used in ethics and the natural sciences. Is there anything else?

 

[El :3]

According to this site here, utilitarianism is 'an effort to provide an answer to the practical question “What ought a man to do?”. Its answer is that he ought to act so as to produce the best consequences possible.'

 

Thus, I believe that it uses the following WOKs:

• Reason - since utilitarianism is based off what is morally right or wrong, we use our reason to determine which category our actions fit under
• Intuition - same as above
• Emotion - we also rely on our emotions to determine what is right or wrong

AOKs:

• Human sciences
• Natural sciences
• Ethics
• Possibly religious knowledge systems when determining what is wrong or right

I hope I helped a bit - this website is also quite useful http://www.iep.utm.edu/util-a-r/