Utilitarianism, the ethic of the "greatest ... on both individual and societal levels. They rejected any assumptions or postulations that could not be supported by ordinary experience.
Using Utilitarianism to Address Abortion
The fact that one rule does not apply to all cases of abortion gives leeway for various acceptances or rejections to abortion. As previously stated in my paper, I defined each act and rule ...
A Few Good Men
The father of utilitarianism first read it in the library in Queen ... Writers of the so-called ‘Realist’ school – who rejected the idealism espoused by Kant in On the Perpetual Peace (1795) – argued ...
Chapter 4: Part 1
and the hostility to them by those who rejected his utilitarian conception of education. We might expect professors of Latin to be hostile to Spencer. An implication of Spencer's writings was that the ...
Happiness and Utility: Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen
equality and morality in his Utilitarianism. Since this approach to the study of Mill’s work is certainly not in the spirit of Professor Rosen’s important new study of Mill’s ideas and may appear to ...
Ethics » Meta ethics » Naturalism
Utilitarianism is one remedy against the problems ... Kant's own approach to ethics rejected the simplistic notion that we are driven by raw pleasure and the avoidance of pain, as much as it ...
Birthday Special: John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism is intertwined with Bentham’s name ... Here, with John Maynard Keynes’s birth following eleven years later, we have a line of humanist thinkers who rejected any need for God where ...
WHAT IS GOOD AND WHY
Utilitarianism places these values at the center of all good practical reasoning by holding that the quantity of good and harm we do is the only consideration that should figure in our deliberations.
Examples Of Utilitarianism
means, otherwise known as utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a life principle that I have thought about and decided upon extensively. I have never quite understood my own ethical standpoint or been ...
Eng Lit is doomed by loss of cultural prestige
For a while I considered the collapsed prestige of the English literature degree one of the important misfortunes of my life. I grew up knowing Clive James had ...
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
Alternatively, if policies such as a height tax are rejected, then the standard Utilitarian framework must fail to capture intuitive notions of distributive justice.
