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Utilitarianism and the pandemic [PDF]
Bioethics, 2020 AbstractThere are no egalitarians in a pandemic. The scale of the challenge for health systems and public policy means that there is an ineluctable need to prioritize the needs of the many. It is impossible to treat all citizens equally, and a failure to carefully consider the consequences of actions could lead to massive preventable loss of life. In a
Julian SĂVULESCU +2 more
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Voices in Bioethics, 2020 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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Refined utilitarianism in practice: reinterpreting the ethical foundations of the NHS [PDF]
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in MedicineThe 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]
Омский 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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Compatibility or Incompatibility of Bentham's Utilitarianism with the Quran's Doctrine [PDF]
Theosophia Islamica, 2021 Moral utilitarianism is one of the most significant and common theories in normative ethics, which gained prominence with the utilitarian utterance of Bentham's crime, and different interpretations of it have always been presented with various ...
Alireza Alebouyeh
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Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: Different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments [PDF]
Judgment 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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Religions, 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 ...
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Utilitarianism and discrimination [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2013 Since Becker (1971), a common argument against asymmetric norms that promote minority rights over those of the majority is that such policies reduce total welfare. While this may be the case, we show that there are simple environments where aggregate sum of individual utilities is actually maximized under asymmetric norms that favor minorities. We thus
Alon Harel, Uzi Segal
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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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UTILITARIANISM AS A PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
Образование 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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