DECISION makingEMPIRICAL researchDEBATEGENE expressionIn the study of utilitarian morality, the sacrificial dilemma paradigm has been the dominant approach for years. However, to address some of the most pressing issues in the current research literature, the present studies adopt an alternative approach...
This includes maximizing aggregate well-being and minimizing aggregate pain, goals that are helped by pursuing efficiency in decision-making, reaching moral decisions without regard for self-interest, and avoiding tribal behavior (such as nationalism or in-group favoritism). I’m guessing that you ...
Subjunctive Utility: A hypothetical utility value associated with possible but non-actual outcomes, often considered in decision-making under uncertainty. Moral Intuitionism: The belief that humans have intuitive moral knowledge. Some utilitarians argue that our moral intuitions align with utility ...
more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the...
In summary, act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism are two approaches to applying the principle of utility in moral decision-making. Act utilitarianism focuses on evaluating each individual action based on its consequences, while rule utilitarianism emphasizes following general rules that tend to promot...
Utilitarianism may have its strengths in the sense that it is considering consequences of each situation and making a decision that is most beneficial to the majority. It is based on consequences, as outlined in HDM (p.69), every situation will be different entailing different facts, which wil...
This criticism is essentially the same as the argument that utilitarianism promotes “expediency.” While those who make this objection worry that utilitarianism facilitates bad behavior by making morality about specific situations and not absolute rules, Mill insists that he does not do away with mora...
I have to pick an ethics system, and after reviewing theethics decision-making models, I believe in my case, whereintegrityis crucial, the system to be applied isAbsolutism, where theRule of Universalityapplies. The only other choice is the most brutal form of utilitarianism,the ends justify ...
Decisions in both cases are made by one person alone. Relevant others do not actively participate in making the decision, but rather indirectly affect it through the decision maker's perception of their preferences. This is precisely what our model aims to describe. A single decision maker, ...
Communism often involves centralized planning and collective decision-making to achieve its goals, proposing a structured approach to manage economies and societies. This can lead to government intervention in all aspects of life to ensure equality and communal ownership. In contrast, utilitarianism does...