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utilitarianism
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u·til·i·tar·i·an·ism / yoōˌtiləˈte(ə)rēəˌnizəm/ • n. the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority. ∎ the doctrine that an action is right insofar as it promotes happiness, and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the guiding principle of conduct.
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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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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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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 As a Public Philosophy.
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Whatever objections may count against utilitarianism as a personal ethical philosophy, these hardly discredit utilitarianism as a philosophy for government...persons, should adhere not to act utilitarianism but to a rules or indirect utilitarianism...
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Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Sexuality; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action. By FRANCES...appreciation of Benthamite utilitarianism (Jeremy Bentham was, of...Foucauldian inclination to blame utilitarianism for institutional infringements...
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Utilitarianism, Hedonism and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy.
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Fred Feldman's somewhat technical Utilitarianism, Hedonism and Desert: Essays in Moral...foundations and internal coherence of utilitarianism. He espouses what he calls "world utilitarianism." Whereas an act utilitarian will...
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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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Utilitarianism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is an intellectual movement in the social sciences and in philosophy...x2019; s Hard Times (1854) includes a memorable portrayal of utilitarianism in the character of Thomas Gradgrind, whose insistence on educating...
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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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