“Utilitarian generalization” is also called “general utilitarianism,” but the former term is more popularly used in the literature and, hence, will also be used in this book. Google Scholar David Lyons, Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 62–...
But pleasure isn’t everything, and maybe the intellectual pleasures aren’t your thing. For some of you, push-pin may really be just good as poetry. (I will explain that reference in my lectures. For now, substitute ‘Minecraft may be just as good as Mozart.’) And if that is true...
Nagel写的书评,贴一个 One-to-OneThomas NagelWhat We Owe to Each Other by T.M. ScanlonHarvard, 480 pp, £21.95, February 1999, ISBN 0 674 95089 5On occasion we are faced with acute moral choices – whether to join the Resistance or stay at home and care for our widowed mother; whe...
utilitariannoun(n.) One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism. adjective(a.) Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; /iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, ...
If ethics means rationalist self-legislation and freedom (deontology), the calculation of happiness (utilitarianism), or the cultivation of virtues (virtue ethics), then Levinas's philosophy is not an ethics. How would Levinas describe the good? Unlike Kant, Levinas' theory explains that the good...
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That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions...
Uscale is the correlation of accuracy with the utilitarianism scale. Rule is the correlation with the rule-based dilemmas. RI is the correlation for the reflection-impulsivity measure for each dilemma. R.drop is the correlation between the item and the mean of the other items. Mean is the ...
Deductive reasoning. This is reasoning where hypothesis or general statement is created, and then a logical process is developed to achieve the conclusion. It follows a top-down logic. We can make a conclusion of true or false based on the sta...
(2017) argue that social contacts are one of the motivations for using PPMs, although there is also research that contests this view by showing that the use of PPMs is largely motivated by utilitarianism and self-interest (Bardhi and Eckhardt 2012). Moreover, Parigi and State (2014) find ...