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Utilitarianism in Crisis

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, and autonomy.
Samuel Dale
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Utilitarianism: Doctrinal analysis evolution of thought [PDF]

Annales 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.
Górecki, Olgierd
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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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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, Onurcan Yilmaz, Hasan G. Bahçekapili   +2 more
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Investigating the Relationship between Centrality of Religiosity, Instrumental Harm, and Impartial Beneficence through the Lens of Moral Foundations

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 ...
Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Edyta Charzyńska   +1 more
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Refined utilitarianism in practice: reinterpreting the ethical foundations of the NHS. [PDF]

Philos Ethics Humanit Med
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
Küçükuncular A.
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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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Rule-Utilitarianism

Ethic@: 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

Trans/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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