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Improving the Ethical Permissibility of Medical Electives in Lower-Resource Settings. [PDF]
Dev World BioethABSTRACT This paper presents a moral‐theoretical evaluation of medical electives, applying different frameworks of distributive justice to the phenomenon of healthcare students visiting countries with less access to resources in order to bolster their own learning.
Jenkins SP.
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Utilitarianism: its history and modern appearances
Studia 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]
حکمت 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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Utilitarianism and the Disabled: Distribution of Resources
, 2002 Utilitarianism is more convincing than resource egalitarianism or welfare egalitarianism as a theory of how resources should be distributed between disabled people and nondisabled people.
Stein, Mark S.
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Cosmopolitan Utilitarianism and the Problem of Local Inaction in a Globalized World
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2015 This article explores the problem of the public acceptability of political inaction as an extreme consequence of cosmopolitan utilitarianism. The case of political inaction as the utility-maximizing public policy option emerges more clearly in the ...
Fausto Corvino
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Evolution and Utilitarianism [PDF]
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2018 Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer have recently provided an evolutionary argument for utilitarianism. They argue that most of our deontological beliefs were shaped by evolution, from which they conclude that these beliefs are unjustified. By contrast, they maintain that the utilitarian belief that everyone’s well-being matters equally is ...
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John Stuart Mill; Act or Rule Utilitarianism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2018 In this paper, we defend the rule-based interpretation of John Stewart Mill's utilitarianism. First, we will explain briefly this recent and new dualism in the philosophy of utilitarian ethics. In general, Utilitarianists are divided into two categories:
hamze hatampouri
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Statistical Utilitarianism [PDF]
, 2016 Given a sufficiently large population satisfying certain statistical regularities, we show that it is often possible to accurately estimate the utilitarian social welfare function and identify the welfare-maximizing social alternative, even if we only have very noisy data about individual utility functions and interpersonal utility comparisons, and ...
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Utilitarianism and Heuristics [PDF]
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2020 The paper develops an alternative to Expected UtilityAnalyses which are often too complex to use in Utilitarianism.
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