Utilitarianism
According to the ethical theory of utilitarianism, an action is right if it promises to produce better results than—or maximize the expected utility of—other action poss...
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Ethics and Economics
Economics is linked to both ethics and the theory of rationality. Economics complements and intersects with moral philosophy in both the concepts it has constructed and in its tre...
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Utilitarianism [addendum]
J. J. C. Smart's advocacy of utilitarianism has been perhaps the most influential since Henry Sidgwick's nearly a century earlier. Nevertheless, there have been...
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Utilitarianism
"Utilitarianism" can most generally be described as the doctrine that states that the rightness or wrongness of actions is determined by the goodness and badness of their ...
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In the following excerpt, Lyons explores Bentham's basic principle of utility and its relationship to morality, ethics, and government.
1. a Sketch of Bentham's Principle
The principl...
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The utilitarian faces many problems because he loses any ability to live a personal life. By this is meant that in making decisions the utilitarian must consider the steps which lead to the highest le...
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Beijing (dpa) - China has ordered all primary and secondary
schoolchildren to take dance lessons from September amid concerns
over lack of exercise among Chinese youngsters,...
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Of all the symbols that writers, artists, philosophers, and composers have used throughout human history, water may be the most powerful metaphor for change. Nine Ways to Cross a River is an exten...
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Of all the symbols that writers, artists, philosophers, and composers have used throughout human history, water may be the most powerful metaphor for change. Nine Ways to Cross a River is an exten...
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Red Hook, along with the rest of latter-day South Brooklyn, continues to be dragged upward (hello, Fairway?), but vestiges do remain of a not-so-distant past when longshoremen outnumbered loft conv...
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BusinessWeek magazine is abandoning most lifestyle coverage and taking a more global approach to business news as part of a major overhaul to be revealed when its next issue hits the street.Gone ar...
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REMOTE STARTER: For $133, we had a local car-stereo shop install a Scytek Security Galaxy 2000RS Plus remote car starter to make the Forenza more inviting on cold mornings. No real new technology h...
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When Ravannah Schrack booked her latest cruise she knew exactly what she didn't want: flashy shows, formal dinners, and competition for deck chairs around a pool. So, instead of booking on a tradit...
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Honda's Civic SI is an attainable twenty-something’s dream car—a fun and affordable way to put the pedal to the metal on public roads. For our Senior Editor Kim Wolfkill it’s a ra...
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Utilitarianism
Ethics and Economics
Critical Essay by David Lyons
Bernard Williams and Utilitarianism
China orders unfit schoolchildren to start dancing
