Explain some of the different forms of utilitarianism

First you should outline what forms of utilitarianisms that you know. This should me Preference Utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism and act utilitarianism. You should then state who first put forward the type of utilitarianism and what the key features of each type of utilitarianism there is.

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