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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 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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Utilitarianism and anti-utilitarianism [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This paper presents the different utilitarian approaches to ethics. It stresses the influence of utilitarianism in economics in general and in welfare economics in particular. The key idea of the paper to explain the evolution from classical utilitarianism to preferences utilitarianism and towards post-welfarist approaches is the following.
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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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Hare's preference utilitarianism: an overview and critique

open access: yesTrans/Form/Ação, 2013
My purpose in this paper is to summarize some aspects of utilitarianism and to provide a general overview of Hare's preference utilitarianism, followed by a critique of Hare's preference theory.
Mauro Cardoso Simões
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Teori Utilitarianisme Jeremy Bentham: Tujuan Hukum Atau Metode Pengujian Produk Hukum?

open access: yesJurnal Konstitusi, 2022
Utility as a legal purpose has become a belief in Indonesia. In his literature, Bentham implies that utility are the dimension of the calculation of pleasure and pain, which is more appropriate to be used as a method of evaluating laws and regulations ...
Endang Pratiwi   +2 more
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Utilitarian epistemology [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2011
Standard epistemology takes it for granted that there is a special kind of value: epistemic value. This claim does not seem to sit well with act utilitarianism, however, since it holds that only welfare is of real value. I first develop a particularly utilitarian sense of “epistemic value”, according to which it is closely analogous to the nature of ...
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Utilitarianism: its history and modern appearances

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2021
As a philosophy, utilitarianism seeks to affect the greatest amount of happiness for the largest number of people. Historically, utilitarianism has undergone numerous changes which have developed the path to this goal. In modern times, utilitarianism can
Beshenich Caroline
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The Relation of Rawls' A Theory of Justice to Hegel's Philosophy of Right [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2007
John Rawls has delineated his "A theory of Justice" fundamentally in contrast with the utilitarianism, because he thinks that utilitarianism is ready to sacrifice the freedom and justice for the common people's utility and happiness.
meysam sefid khosh, yousef shaghol
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