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Utilitarianism: Doctrinal analysis evolution of thought [PDF]

open access: yesAnnales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017
Utilitarianism as an innovative and original stream of ethical and political thought has enriched the philosophical discourse of the last three centuries.
Olgierd Górecki
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Discounting, beyond Utilitarianism [PDF]

open access: yesEconomics: Journal Articles, 2014
AbstractDiscounted utilitarianism and the Ramsey equation prevail in the debate on the discount rate on consumption. The utility discount rate is assumed to be constant and to reflect either the uncertainty about the existence of future generations or a pure preference for the present. The authors question the unique status of discounted utilitarianism
Marc Fleurbaey, Stéphane Zuber
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Utilitarianism [PDF]

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The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics is a major new reference work which highlights the common ground between all the branches of the school while demonstrating the breadth and diversity within it. The Companion reflects the many areas where Austrian economists have made contributions, including technical economics, methodology of the social ...
Mill, John Stuart
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Refined utilitarianism in practice: reinterpreting the ethical foundations of the NHS [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed acute tensions in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) between its egalitarian self-image and the utilisation of overtly utilitarian tools such as QALY-based cost-effectiveness and prognosis-driven triage. This
Ahmet Küçükuncular
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Utilitarianism in Russia, or May moral of utility be regulator for contemporary Russian society? [PDF]

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2019
The initial thesis of the study is the assertion that utilitarian doctrine can serve as a means of moral restoration of Russian society, which is struck by anomie. The subject of the study is the moral doctrine of utilitarianism.
E. N. Yarkova
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Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: Different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2017
The psychological correlates of utilitarian choices in sacrificial moral dilemmas are contentious. In the literature, some research (Greene, et al., 2001) suggested that utilitarianism requires analytic thinking while other research (Kahane et al., 2015)
Büsra Aktas   +2 more
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Investigating the Relationship between Centrality of Religiosity, Instrumental Harm, and Impartial Beneficence through the Lens of Moral Foundations

open access: yesReligions, 2022
A growing body of work suggests that religiosity is typically associated with deontological or non-utilitarian moral judgments. However, recent conceptualizations of utilitarian psychology show that instrumental harm is just one (negative) dimension of ...
Mariola Paruzel-Czachura   +1 more
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WAS J. BENTHAM THE FIRST LEGAL UTILITARIAN?

open access: yesRUDN 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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UTILITARIANISM AS A PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

open access: yesОбразование и наука, 2016
Aim. The article is devoted to the representation of utilitarianism as the philosophy of education. The main problem is the relevance of utilitarian strategies for the present stage of development of education in Russia.
Elena N. Yarkova
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Rule-Utilitarianism

open access: yesEthic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2012
O objetivo do presente trabalho é examinar se o utilitarismo de regras poderia ter êxito em prover um possível avanço sobre o utilitarismo de atos, de modo a tornar o utilitarismo uma teoria moral viável. Em face deste propósito, levarei em consideração
Mauro Cardoso Simões
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