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Why Rule Utilitarianism Maximizes Utility. Rule Utilitarianism Avoids the Criticisms of Act Utilitarianism. Judges, Doctors, and Promise-makers. Maintaining vs. Undermining Trust. Impartiality and the Problem of Over-Demandingness. Arguments against Rule Utilitarianism. The “Rule Worship” Objection.
9 Σεπ 2024 · Utilitarianism, in normative ethics, a tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill according to which an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness.
Three different moral theories are briefly sketched: virtue theories, deontological theories, and consequentialist theories. Professor Gendler introduces at greater length a particular form of consequentialism—utilitarianism—put forward by John Stuart Mill.
31 Δεκ 2003 · No, rule-consequentialism is essentially the conjunction of two claims: (1) that rules are to be selected solely in terms of their consequences and (2) that these rules determine which kinds of acts are morally wrong.
27 Μαρ 2009 · Utilitarianism is one of the most powerful and persuasive approaches to normative ethics in the history of philosophy. Though not fully articulated until the 19 th century, proto-utilitarian positions can be discerned throughout the history of ethical theory.
29 Νοε 2022 · A brief and accessible introduction to utilitarianism, by two leading contemporary utilitarian theorists, covering the historical roots of the view, arguments in support of it, objections, different varieties of the view, and its contemporary relevance.
Utilitarianism is a moral theory that combines two key claims: Everyone matters equally and. tter to do more good . or how we should live our lives. The purpose of this website is to (i) introduce and defend these key ideas, and (ii) expl. make a difference in the world. Utilitarians are interested.
