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The Alienation Objection to Consequentialism [PDF]
, 2020 An ethical theory is alienating if accepting the theory inhibits the agent from fitting participation in some normative ideal, such as some ideal of integrity, friendship, or community.
Baker, Calvin, Maguire, Barry
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Bertrand Russell, The Utilitarian Pacifist
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015 Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), one of the towering intellectuals of the 20th century, was an indefatigable pacifist throughout the Great War. But his pacifism was not unreserved, depending as it did on his consequentialist attitude towards war and towards
Olivier Esteves
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Right to Life, a Divine Right or a Human Right? [PDF]
حقوق بشر, 2023 Undoubtedly, the right to life is the most important of all rights. Regarding this point, the fundamental question is, who has the authority to make laws and take action resulting in humans being killed? In response to this question, in this paper, I aim
Mir Saeid Mousavi Karimi
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Consequentialism & Machine Ethics: Towards a Foundational Machine Ethic to Ensure the Right Action of Artificial Moral Agents [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, I argue that Consequentialism represents a kind of ethical theory that is the most plausible to serve as a basis for a machine ethic.
Della Foresta, Josiah
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Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos
Conservation Letters, 2022 Legal hunting of threatened species—and especially the recreational practice of “trophy hunting”—is controversial with ethical objections being increasingly voiced.
Michael ’t Sas‐Rolfes +3 more
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Sumienie i nauki o sumieniu z perspektywy neuronauk
Scientia et Fides, 2014 Neuroscientific perspectives on conscience and conscience-related researchRecent years have witnessed a growth in empirical research into the biological correlates of conscience and moral decision-making. The central questions posed and addressed in such
Józef Bremer
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, 2007 De minimis cutoffs are a familiar feature of risk regulation. This includes the quantitative individual risk thresholds for fatality risks employed in many contexts by EPA, FDA, and other agencies, such as the 1-in-1 million lifetime cancer risk cutoff ...
Adler, Matthew D.
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A Comparative Study of Structure of Civil Liability in Common Law System and Law of Islam [PDF]
پژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2018 From a long time ago up to now, the structure of civil liability in Common Law has been right-centered and based upon prohibited behavior formatted on forms of the action and focused on the effects and consequences of human action against rights of ...
Iraj Babayi, smaeil keshavarz safi yi
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The Consequentialist Judgment Paradox
ProfilIn normative ethics, some of the oldest and still lively debates revolve around the question of consequentialism. The question is not so much about making a binary decision between consequentialism and its alternatives (notably deontology ...
Arthur Ionescu
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WAS J. BENTHAM THE FIRST LEGAL UTILITARIAN?
RUDN Journal of Law, 2020 Legal utilitarianism is attractive for practice because this field of legal thought and philosophy of law sets out a particular direction of legal policy and statutory regulation (focus on the utility principle in decision-making) that can, under certain
Igor V. Kolosov, Konstantin E. Sigalov
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