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A Utilitarian Islamic Jurist: al-Shāṭibī
ReligionsUtilitarianism is a theory of morality and law that aims for the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people. The two names that come to mind when utilitarianism is mentioned in Western thought are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, the ...
Metin Aydın, Feyza Cevherli
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A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism [PDF]
Anti-utilitarian norms often are used in assessing tax systems. Two motivations support this practice. First, many believe utilitarianism to be insufficiently egalitarian.
Louis Kaplow
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, 2006 This essay develops an ideal of public legal reason--a normative theory of legal reasons that is appropriate for a society characterized by religious and moral pluralism.
Solum, Lawrence B.
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Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Andreas T. Schmidt
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Why Paternalism Is Wrong (When It Is Wrong)
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel reinterpretation of the familiar, if inchoate, thought that paternalism offends against an ideal of personal sovereignty. The central idea is that (competent) persons have a particular kind of normative power. Just as each of us has the right to control how others are permitted to use our bodies or property, we each
Jonathan Parry
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4. Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarianism
, 1958 Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) is the lst Englishman with whom we shall deal in this chapter. His life spanned the years from the Enlightenment almost up to the Victorian Age (1837-1901).
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Inkomensongelijkheid en geluk in landen [PDF]
, 2007 All modern nations reduce income differences to some extent, and as a result there is an ongoing discussion about what degree of income inequality is acceptable. In this discussion libertarians oppose egalitarians and a principled consensus between these
Berg, M.C. (Maarten)
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Human Rights Against Climate Risks and the Problem of Paralysis
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Richard Endörfer
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Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames.
Onna Malou van den Broek +3 more
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F.Y. Edgeworth’s Mathematical Psychics and his Utilitarianism: The Derivation from the ‘Sidgwick-Barratt Controversy’* [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that Edgeworth’s Mathematical Psychics (1881) has been influenced by various intellectual contemporaries through the ‘Sidgwick-Barratt Controversy’.
Tomoyuki Uemiya
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