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Understanding Utilitarianism
Author | : Tim Mulgan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781317493396 |
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Utilitarianism - a philosophy based on the principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people - has been hugely influential over the past two centuries. Beyond ethics or morality, utilitarian assumptions and arguments abound in modern economic and political life, especially in public policy. An understanding of utilitarianism is indeed essential to any understanding of contemporary society. "Understanding Utilitarianism" presents utilitarianism very much as a living tradition. The book begins with a summary of the classical utilitarianism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters trace the development of the central themes of utilitarian thought over the twentieth century, covering such questions as: What is happiness? Is happiness the only valuable thing? Is utilitarianism about acts or rules or institutions? Is utilitarianism unjust, or implausibly demanding, or impractical? and Where might utilitarianism go in the future?
Understanding Utilitarianism
Author | : Tim Mulgan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781317493402 |
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Utilitarianism - a philosophy based on the principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people - has been hugely influential over the past two centuries. Beyond ethics or morality, utilitarian assumptions and arguments abound in modern economic and political life, especially in public policy. An understanding of utilitarianism is indeed essential to any understanding of contemporary society. "Understanding Utilitarianism" presents utilitarianism very much as a living tradition. The book begins with a summary of the classical utilitarianism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters trace the development of the central themes of utilitarian thought over the twentieth century, covering such questions as: What is happiness? Is happiness the only valuable thing? Is utilitarianism about acts or rules or institutions? Is utilitarianism unjust, or implausibly demanding, or impractical? and Where might utilitarianism go in the future?
Utilitarianism Ed Heydt
Author | : John Stuart Mill |
Publsiher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2010-08-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781460402108 |
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John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism, a moral theory stating that right actions are those that tend to promote overall happiness. The essay first appeared as a series of articles published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill discusses utilitarianism in some of his other works, including On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, but Utilitarianism contains his only sustained defence of the theory. In this Broadview Edition, Colin Heydt provides a substantial introduction that will enable readers to understand better the polemical context for Utilitarianism. Heydt shows, for example, how Mill’s moral philosophy grew out of political engagement, rather than exclusively out of a speculative interest in determining the nature of morality. Appendices include precedents to Mill’s work, reactions to Utilitarianism, and related writings by Mill.
Understanding Ethics
Author | : Torbjoern Taennsjoe |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780748682270 |
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Torbjoern Taennsjoe presents 7 radically different moral theories "e; utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, environmental or ecological ethics "e; each of which attempts to provide the ultimate answ
Happiness and Utility
Author | : Georgios Varouxakis,Mark Philp |
Publsiher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2019-07-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781787350489 |
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Happiness and Utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it in earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Drawing on a range of philosophical and historical approaches to the study of the central idea of utilitarianism, the chapters provide a rich set of insights into a founding component of ethics and modern political and economic thought, as well as political and economic practice. In doing so, the chapters examine the multiple dimensions of utilitarianism and the contested interpretations of this standard for judgement in morality and public policy.
Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government
Author | : Charles Tennant |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015005452365 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism
Author | : Ben Eggleston,Dale E. Miller |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2014-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107020139 |
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of one of the most important and frequently discussed accounts of morality. It will be an important resource for all those studying moral philosophy, political philosophy, political theory and history of ideas.
Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government Being a Reply to John Stuart Mill s Work Entitled Utilitarianism
Author | : John Stuart Mill |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0018079843 |
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