Utilitarianism: Introduced “hedonic calculus”, the action that produces the “highest pleasure” should be put into practice or at the least be more heavily weighed than so-called “lower pleasures”. Modern Ethics Quotes “Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery...
Utilitarianism. M. Pines. P. Smolenskin (1842-85). "Ha-Shaḥar." Contemporary Literature (1885-1904). Daily Press. Modern Hebrew literature (1743-1904), in distinction to that form of Neo-Hebraic literature known as rabbinical literature (see Literature, Hebrew), which is distinctly religio...
"Tyranny of the majority"; egalitarianism or democracy threatens to create a new despotism, a gentle paternal state and immense protective power for which citizens quit their state of independence just long enough to choose their masters (ie. voting). "Art of association"; lacking hereditary insti...
Under the influence of more contemporary philosophies of materialism, positivism, utilitarianism, and Social Darwinism, the leading intel lectuals of the period began to adopt new social theories that seemed more scientifically and historically plausible. Evolu tionism, in particular, was the "...
The most-influential variety of 20th-century ethical rationalism was probably the idealutilitarianismof the British moralistsHastings Rashdall (1858–1924) andG.E. Moore(1873–1958). Both wereteleologists(from the Greektelos, “end”) inasmuch as they held that what makes an act objectively right...
The Enlightenment, inspired by the example of natural science, had accepted certain boundaries to human knowledge; that is, it had recognized certain limits to reason’s ability to penetrate ultimate reality because that would require methods that surpass the capabilities ofscientific method. In this...