The ethical theory that supports actions that provide the greatest good to the greatest number is called: a. Utilitarianism b. Sidgwick's Dualism c. Ethical Egoism d. Kant's Ethics Which of the following best describes utilitarianism? A) It is the ideal that humans ...
Second, our criterion avoids the conventional critiques to utilitarianism by satisfying the following three fairness axioms: possibility of trade-offs sets a limit to the influence any individual can exert on the social ranking; non discrimination means that no individual is considered to be more ...
英文: Locke is regarded as a pioneer of the English empiricism and estheticism in the following three aspects: the subjectivity in the nature of beauty, imagination of esthetic activity, and utilitarianism of the artistic education. 中文: 摘要洛克是英国经验主义哲学和美学的开创者,其美学思想表现在三...
For example a pleasure/desire may be to bully a lonely child, which may produce pleasure, however happiness comes from following virtues rather than desires. The classic utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill influenced many other philosophers as well as the development of the broader concept of ...
Consequentialism – the goodness of an action is determined exclusively by its consequences. Utilitarianism is one type of consequentialist ethical theory. Classical utilitarians and founders of the tradition include Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill U
This incompleteness may not be found problematic, as the following example shows: “Jones is driving through a tunnel behind a slow-moving truck. It is illegal to change lanes in the tunnel, and Jones’s doing so would disrupt the traffic. Nevertheless, she is going to change lanes (…)....
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Milllooks at one last criticism of utilitarianism: some argue that, because utilitarianism allows for exceptions to rules, people will excuse themselves from following the rules when it benefits them at the expense of others. But Mill argues that people can misinterpret any moral doctrine this way...
About the age of 12, he began a thorough study of Scholastic logic, at the same time reading Aristotle’s logical treatises in the original. In the following year he was introduced to political economy and studied the work of the Scottish political economist and philosopher Adam Smith and ...
Ethics - Utilitarianism, Morality, Consequentialism: At this point the argument over whether morality is based on reason or on feelings was temporarily exhausted, and the focus of British ethics shifted from such questions about the nature of morality as