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u·til·i·tar·i·an / yoōˌtiliˈte(ə)rēən/ • adj. 1. designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.
2. Philos. of, relating to, or adhering to the doctrine of utilitarianism: a utilitarian theorist.
• n. Philos. an adherent of utilitarianism.
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Utilitarianism and conflation *.
Magazine article from: Polity; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; A common charge against utilitarianism is that it fails to respect...often been levelled against utilitarianism in the context of debates about...Justice, Rawls writes that "Utilitarianism does not take seriously the...
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Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...argument with the claim that utilitarianism raises two related problems...paradox. The first is that utilitarianism "requires too much" by imposing...paradox entailed is that "utilitarianism tells us to make each and...
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Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Science Much recent work on the history of utilitarianism, especially in its nineteenth-century...John Rawls's contractualist challenge to utilitarianism. Rawls identified utilitarianism as the main philosophical threat to liberalism...
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UTILITARIANISM, INSTITUTIONS, AND JUSTICE.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; UTILITARIANISM, INSTITUTIONS, AND JUSTICE. By...University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 203. Utilitarianism is subject to objections of at least...first chapter, Bailey describes utilitarianism, and considers a variety of prima...
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Mark S. Stein, Distributive Justice and Disability: Utilitarianism against Egalitarianism.
Magazine article from: Social Theory and Practice; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Distributive Justice and Disability: Utilitarianism against Egalitarianism (New Haven...case that, pitted head-to-head, utilitarianism is the clear winner. Egalitarian...resource and welfare egalitarianism, utilitarianism offers a "golden mean" that redistributes...
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Can utilitarianism justify legal rights with moral force?(Preferences and Rational Choice: New Perspectives and Legal Implications)
Magazine article from: University of Pennsylvania Law Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; David Lyons has argued that utilitarianism cannot justify legal rights with moral force. (1) He defined utilitarianism as the view that "the only sound...welfare." (2) He presented utilitarianism with the dilemma that even if...
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Hedonistic Utilitarianism. (book review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...distinctive version of hedonistic act utilitarianism. It is plainly written, forthright...introduces the advocated version of utilitarianism: AU A particular action is right...contrasted with subjective and rule utilitarianism. The theory is defended against structural...
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A fundamental objection to tax equity norms: a call for utilitarianism.
Magazine article from: National Tax Journal; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...simplest and most studied norm is utilitarianism, which favors whatever regime produces...tax policy analysts do not embrace utilitarianism, primarily for two reasons. First, they find utilitarianism to be insufficiently egalitarian...
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COLUMN: Utilitarianism challenges noise ordinances
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...somewhere, I was a strict utilitarian. Utilitarianism was advanced most famously by John...Randolph Hearst and even David Lee Roth. Utilitarianism is the theory that whatever course...8 units happier. It seems like utilitarianism only will have a clear outcome in...
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The fictive worlds of John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; In his Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill presents his...populated by a personification of Utilitarianism itself and partly shaped by conflicting...unconsciously. In short, Mill's Utilitarianism is the product not only of a calculated...
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Utilitarianism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
UTILITARIANISM. Utilitarianism is the name of a group of ethical theories that judges the...or punishment. This is so, moreover, even as critics of utilitarianism as a normative ethical theory have become more numerous. Classically...
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utilitarianism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
utilitarianism is the moral philosophy which asserts...Jeremy Bentham , the systematizer of utilitarianism, an action is right if, and only...greatest number. Bentham presented utilitarianism as a practical guide to both individual...
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Jeremy Bentham
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...expounded the ethical doctrine known as utilitarianism. Partly through his work many political...English intellectual life. Bentham's Utilitarianism In 1776 Bentham published Fragment...their actual usage and consequences. Utilitarianism may be defined as the thesis that...
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Henry Sidgwick
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The basis of his thought was British utilitarianism. Analyzing the intuitionist and utilitarian...common sense rests on the principles of utilitarianism. In The Methods of Ethics (1874...systems based on intuitionism, and utilitarianism, and egoism, he concluded that intuitionism...
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Justice
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...rights or even of their lives, utilitarianism is often accused of failing to...toward individuals. In defense of utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) argued in Utilitarianism (1863) that the claims of justice...
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