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Bentham and Mill on the "Quality" of Pleasures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham are often said to have held opposed views concerning the way “the value” of different pleasures should be estimated. Mill is accused of being an inconsistent utilitarian because he thought
Vergara, Francisco
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Walras avait-il raison de critiquer Dupuit ?

open access: yesŒconomia, 2011
We are well aware of Walras’ hostility against Dupuit’s concept of surplus. The reasons for this hostility may be primarily psychological or ideological, not to mention Walras’ difficulty to understand the ideas of others.
François Etner
doaj   +1 more source

An introduction to ethical theory for healthcare assistants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article will explore and summarise the four main ethical theories that have relevance for healthcare assistants. These are utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and principlism.
Blackshaw, Bruce P., Rodger, Daniel
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Jeremy Bentham, social criticism and levels of meaning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Published in an e ...
Tyler, C.
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The Impossible Mission: Global Justice Movement against Transnational Organized Crime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article argues that the best counterattack against globally oriented transnational organized crime (TOC) is by a global response. The contribution of participating states and the creation of a collective identity against TOC are both necessary. This
CAYLI, BARIS
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Constructing Eco‐Responsible National Identities Through Collective Memory: Settler and Māori Histories of Environmental Change in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of scholarship argues that collective memories of historical environmental change—formed and transmitted through museums, movies, novels, activist performances and other cultural texts and practices—can help nurture proenvironmentalism.
Olli Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

Utilitarianism

open access: yes, 2002
Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world, through the Enlightenment and Victorian utilitarianism up to
openaire   +3 more sources

Synderesis vs. Consequentialism and Utilitarianism in Workplace Bullying Prevention

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
The existence of workplace bullying in modern organizations is, first of all, a serious moral challenge. Since bullying characterized by intense and long‐lasting persecution of the target causes serious negative consequences for organizations, there are ...
Jolita Vveinhardt, Mykolas Deikus
doaj   +1 more source

Twenty Questions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the first of this new series for the journal, Peter Singer responds to questions from the editors and Theron ...
Peter, Singer
core  

Infinite ethics and the limits of impartiality

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneficence—the part of morality concerned with promoting people's well‐being—is widely thought to be both agent‐neutral and impartial: it prescribes a common aim to all, and does not favor some individuals over others. This paper explores a problem for agent‐neutral, impartial beneficence from the perspective of “individualistic ethics” in ...
Jacob M. Nebel
wiley   +1 more source

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