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Against Maximizing Act-Consequentialism [PDF]

, 2006
http://klinechair.missouri.edu/on-line%20papers/consequentialism%20for%20Blackwell.docMaximizing act consequentialism holds that actions are morally permissible if and only if they maximize the value of consequences—if and only if, that is, no ...
Vallentyne, Peter
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Mill’s Moral Standard [PDF]

, 2016
A book chapter (about 7,000 words, plus references) on the interpretation of Mill’s criterion of right and wrong, with particular attention to act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism, and sanction utilitarianism.
Eggleston, Ben
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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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One standard to rule them all? [PDF]

, 2019
It has been argued that an epistemically rational agent’s evidence is subjectively mediated through some rational epistemic standards, and that there are incompatible but equally rational epistemic standards available to agents.
Daoust, Marc-Kevin
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Against supererogationism [PDF]

In this thesis, I argue that we have no reason to accept the existence of a category of supererogatory moral goods: that is, good acts that carry no pressure to bring them about.
Van Niekerk, Jason Bradley
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"WE SHALL OVERCOME": FROM BLACK CHURCH MUSIC TO FREEDOM SONG [PDF]

, 2006
The music sung by protesters in the American Civil Rights Movement was inseparable from the music in black Protestant churches. Despite the firm boundaries between the sacred and the secular in black Baptist and Methodist traditions, protesters adapted ...
Neal, Brandi Amanda
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Some Ethical Reflections on AIDS. [PDF]

Linacre Q, 2023
LaChat M.
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Heroism as Moral Paradox [PDF]

, 2006
Often involving sacrifice, heroism is not easily understandable in secular ethical theory, e.g. in Utilitarian, Deontological or Virtue Theory. The consequences of heroism may be useful or not; heroic actions are not duties; and heroism is neither a ...
Eveleth, Lois M
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Vocation to Love: Supererogation in Aquinas

International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2022
J. Rooney
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Nurses' role model duties for health and COVID-19 pandemic precautions. [PDF]

Nurs Ethics, 2023
Neiman P.
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