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Deontology vs. utilitarianism: Understanding the basis for the moral theories in medicine
International Journal of Medicine and Health Development, 2022 We live in a society that functions with a system of morals that seeks to determine what is right or wrong. Each society is ruled by moral codes that guide people’s action to minimize the risk of sliding into structural dysfunction.
Felix N Chukwuneke, Anthony C Ezenwugo
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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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A Defense of Scalar Utilitarianism [PDF]
, 2017 Scalar Utilitarianism eschews foundational notions of rightness and wrongness in favor of evaluative comparisons of outcomes. I defend Scalar Utilitarianism from two critiques, the first against an argument for the thesis that Utilitarianism's ...
Tobia, Kevin Patrick
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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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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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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz +2 more
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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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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund +2 more
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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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Iranian Muslim Reformists and Contemporary Ethics; Revival of “Utilitarianism" [PDF]
, 2017 This paper raises a moral issue for contemporary post-revolutionary Muslim intellectuals in Iran. According to traditional Islamic teachings, ethics enables people to transcend from this mundane world and offers guidance on ways to improve virtues.
Dabbagh, Hossein
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