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Communication Skills of the Leader in the School Unit: Applied Ethics and Rule Utilitarianism
Conatus - Journal of PhilosophyThe purpose of this study is to highlight the importance of developing and cultivating the communication skills of school unit leaders and teachers, and the connection between these skills, based on rule utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is fundamental for
Christos Kanavas +2 more
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Utilitarianism: a psychophysical perspective
Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2004 The psychological doctrines of empiricism, associationism, and hedonism served as intellectual sources for the development of utilitarianism in the 18th century and psychophysics in the 19th.
Lawrence Marks
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Taoism, bioethics, and the COVID-19 pandemic
Tzu Chi Medical Journal, 2022 The stress that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on health systems internationally has forced difficult decisions concerning the rationing of medical care and has put the bioethical structures that inform those choices under scrutiny.
Liam C Butchart
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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, 2007 This paper discusses Bernard Williams's famous case of Jim and the Indians. It contrasts two ways of diagnosing the alleged errors of Act Utilitarianism in considering this case.
Woodard, Christopher
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, 2018 “Utilitarianism” is the name of a family of ethical theories that take as the yardstick of moral appraisal the propensity of acts to increase or decrease human well-being (or, more generally, the well-being of all sentient creatures). Emerging to prominence in the European Enlightenment, utilitarianism was, and continues to this day to be, a secular ...
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Critique of Utilitarianism in Light of Gigerenzer's Objections in Cognitive Science [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهUtilitarianism, as one of the normative ethical theories, has always been a subject of debate among philosophers. In its classical approaches, this theory posits that an action is morally good if it brings the greatest amount of good to the greatest ...
seyyed Mahdi Mirahmadi +1 more
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IJISH (International Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanities)By employing Utility tools or moral conducts based on “the greatest good for the greatest number”, the Utilitarian mechanism maximizes the Utility for majority.
Mohammad Abul Mufazzal +1 more
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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Ambiguity Aversion behind the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2021 The veil of ignorance argument was used by John C. Harsanyi to defend Utilitarianism and by John Rawls to defend the absolute priority of the worst off.
Stefánsson, H. Orri
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