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Cosmopolitan “No-Harm” Duty in Warfare: Exposing the Utilitarian Pretence of Universalism
This article demonstrates a priori cosmopolitan values of restraint and harm limitation exist to establish a cosmopolitan “no-harm” duty in warfare, predating utilitarianism and permeating modern international humanitarian law.
Ozlem Ulgen
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ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the most profound ethical and existential challenges of the 21st century. Beyond its physical, economic, and environmental consequences, it raises fundamental moral questions about justice, equity, responsibility, and the right to a livable planet.
Jacob Kwakye
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Utilitarianism or Welfarism: Does it Make a Difference? [PDF]
We show that it is possible to reconcile the utilitarian and welfarist principles under the\r\nrequirement of unanimity provided that the set of profiles over which the consensus is\r\nattained is rich enough.
Patrick MOYES ( GREThA, CNRS, UMRS 5113) +1 more
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Individualism Without Individuality: Friedrich Hayek and the Neoliberal Citizen
ABSTRACT Critics of neoliberalism increasingly examine its corrosive effects on democracy. Scholars often turn to Friedrich Hayek's political theory, arguing that it produces citizens who passively conform to spontaneous social orders. Yet insufficient attention has been paid to the normative conception of the human individual underlying his ...
Tal Tzur
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The exigency and scarcity thrust on society by the emerging COVID-19 pandemic have produced novel interactions and tensions within normative ethical theory. Western ethics is occupied by the inherently incongruent frameworks of utilitarianism, deontology,
Samuel Dale
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The law of AI knowledge distillation
Abstract Knowledge distillation—the practice of training a compact student model on the outputs of a larger teacher model—has emerged as the fastest‐growing technique for replicating and disseminating frontier artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Taorui Guan
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ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund +2 more
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ABSTRACT Health actors must ration care due to resource constraints. But even when decision makers know the relevant empirical facts about an allocation decision—including how many patients will benefit from a service, which patients will benefit, how much each patient will benefit, and so on—these facts may not provide a clear answer about how to make
Leah Pierson
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NONHUMAN ANIMAL ETHICS: OUTLINING A DUTY OF CARE FOR THE DEPENDENT
The authors examine the ethical foundations of humanity’s responsibilities toward nonhuman animals, emphasizing the intuition that special duties arise toward beings unable to protect or provide for themselves.
BOJAN SPAIĆ, SAVA VOJNOVIĆ
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Flawed logic and shallow utilitarianism: Torture and the ticking bomb scenario [PDF]
The debate over the efficacy of torture is ongoing. When faced with an emergency situation, such as a bomb about to explode in a densely populated area, should the state resort to torture if the suspect in custody refuses to divulge any information ...
Simonette, Adam
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