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Rawls versus utilitarianism: the subset objection [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents an objection to John Rawls’s use of the original position method to argue against implementing utilitarian rules. The use of this method is pointless because a small subset of the premises Rawls relies on can be used to infer the same
Goldman, Nozick, Rawls, Scheffler
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Foundations of utilitarianism under risk and variable population [PDF]
, 2022 Dean Spears, Stéphane Zuber
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The Impact of Utilitarianism on Management and Organization Knowledge [PDF]
اسلام و مدیریت, 2013 Moral philosophy consists of normative ethics and meta-ethics. Also normative ethics theories are divided into teleological and deontological. One of the most rooted teleological theories is utilitarianism developed by Bentham and Mill in the nineteenth ...
Amir Hoseinizadeh
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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Contra el utilitarismo: el heterogéneo enfoque de los teóricos de la virtud [PDF]
Claridades: Revista de Filosofía, 2017 The current essay, belonging to the field of Normative Ethics, aims to offer a selection of relevant objections to Utilitarianism. The mentioned selection is presented by a series of authors related to the heterogeneous Virtue Ethics.
Gabriel Aragón Aranda
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Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women?
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2017 Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women? Philosophers and policy-makers concerned with the ethics, economics, and politics of development argue that the phenomenon of ‘adaptive preference’ makes preference-utilitarian measures of well-being untenable.
H. E. Baber
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How not to argue about immigration [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2013 This paper describes and assesses the arguments offered both against closed borders and in favor of a more open borders approach to U.S. immigration reform as those arguments are set forth in R.
Corlett Angelo J., Unger Kimberly
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