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    Optimal Moral Rules and Supererogatory Acts.I. Mill’S. Extraordinary Maximizing Utilitarianism - 2010 - In Ben Eggleston, Dale Miller & David Weinstein, John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life. , US: Oxford University Press.
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  2. Chapter II What Utilitarianism Is.What Utilitarianism Is - 2006 - In Henry West, The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 67.
     
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    MOZAFFAR QlZILBASH 223 Reviews RM Hare, Sorting Out Ethics DALE E. MILLER 241 Andrew Mason (ed.), Ideals on Equality.Conservative Utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham & J. S. Mill - 2000 - Utilitas 12 (2).
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  4. An examination of restricted utilitarianism.H. J. McCloskey - 1957 - Philosophical Review 66 (4):466-485.
  5. Mill's deliberative utilitarianism.David O. Brink - 1992 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 21 (1):67-103.
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    Sidgwick and Bentham's “double aspect” of utilitarianism revisited.Yanxiang Zhang - 2024 - Theoria 90 (2):161-176.
    In “Sidgwick on Bentham: the ‘Double Aspect’ of Utilitarianism”, Schofield argued that Bentham did not regard his psychological theory as part of his utilitarianism and that natural benevolence is at his disposal to mitigate the problem of the “double aspect” of utilitarianism. This paper argues that Bentham regarded his psychological theory as part of his utilitarianism and that, in a manner quite distinct from an internal, benevolence approach, he took advantage of self‐preference and thus adopted a (...)
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  7. Nietzsche's critique of utilitarianism.Jonny Anomaly - 2005 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 29 (29):1-15.
  8. When Deontology and Utilitarianism Aren’t Enough: How Heidegger’s Notion of “Dwelling” Might Help Organisational Leaders Resolve Ethical Issues.D. Ladkin - 2006 - Journal of Business Ethics 65 (1):87-98.
    This paper offers an alternative to deontological and utilitarian approaches to making ethical decisions and taking good actions by organisational leaders. It argues that the relational and context-dependent nature of leadership necessitates reference to an ethical approach which explicitly takes these aspects into account. Such an approach is offered in the re-conceptualisation of ethical action on the part of leaders as a process of "coming into right relation" vis-à-vis those affected by their decisions and actions. Heidegger's notion of "dwelling" is (...)
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  9. Measuring Impartial Beneficence: A Kantian Perspective on the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale.Emilian Mihailov - 2022 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14 (3):989-1004.
    To capture genuine utilitarian tendencies, (Kahane et al., Psychological Review 125:131, 2018) developed the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale (OUS) based on two subscales, which measure the commitment to impartial beneficence and the willingness to cause harm for the greater good. In this article, I argue that the impartial beneficence subscale, which breaks ground with previous research on utilitarian moral psychology, does not distinctively measure utilitarian moral judgment. I argue that Kantian ethics captures the all-encompassing impartial concern for the well-being of (...)
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  10. Actual consequence utilitarianism.Marcus G. Singer - 1977 - Mind 86 (341):67-77.
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  11. Integrity, practical deliberation and utilitarianism.Edward Harcourt - 1998 - Philosophical Quarterly 48 (191):189-198.
  12. A New Argument Against Critical-Level Utilitarianism.Patrick Williamson - 2021 - Utilitas 33 (4):399-416.
    One prominent welfarist axiology, critical-level utilitarianism, says that individual lives must surpass a specified ‘critical level’ in order to make a positive contribution to the comparative status of a given population. In this article I develop a new dilemma for critical-level utilitarians. When comparatively evaluating populations composed of different species, critical-level utilitarians must decide whether the critical level is a universal threshold or whether the critical level is a species-relative threshold. I argue that both thresholds lead to a range (...)
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    Persons, selves, and utilitarianism.Bart Schultz - 1986 - Ethics 96 (4):721-745.
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  14. Consequentialism and Respect: Two Strategies for Justifying Act Utilitarianism.Ben Eggleston - 2020 - Utilitas 32 (1):1-18.
    Most arguments in support of act utilitarianism are elaborations of one of two basic strategies. One is the consequentialist strategy. This strategy relies on the consequentialist premise that an act is right if and only if it produces the best possible consequences and the welfarist premise that the value of a state of affairs is entirely determined by its overall amount of well-being. The other strategy is based on the idea of treating individuals respectfully and resolving conflicts among individuals (...)
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    Deception in Research: Distinctions and Solutions From the Perspective of Utilitarianism.David J. Pittenger - 2002 - Ethics and Behavior 12 (2):117-142.
    The use of deception in psychological research continues to be a controversial topic. Using Rawls's explication of utilitarianism, I attempt to demonstrate how professional organizations, such as the American Psychological Association, can provide more specific standards that determine the permissibility of deception in research. Specifically, I argue that researchers should examine the costs and benefits of creating and applying specific rules governing deception. To that end, I offer 3 recommendations. First, that researchers who use deception provide detailed accounts of (...)
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  16. Moral rules, utilitarianism and schizophrenic moral education.Kevin McDonough - 1992 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 26 (1):75–89.
    R. M. Hare has argued for and defended a ‘two-level’, view of moral agency. He argues that moral agents ought to rely on the rules of ‘intuitive moral thinking’ for their ‘everyday’ moral judgments. When these rules conflict or when we do not have a rule at hand, we ought to ascend to the act-utilitarian,‘critical’ level of moral thinking. I argue that since the rules at the intuitive level of moral thinking necessarily conflict much more often than Hare supposes, and (...)
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    On refined utilitarianism.Gertrude Ezorsky - 1981 - Journal of Philosophy 78 (3):156-159.
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  18. Utilitarianism: For and Against.J. J. C. Smart & Bernard Williams - 1973 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Bernard Williams.
    Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticated version of classical utilitarianism; he tries to formulate a consistent and persuasive elaboration of the doctrine that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined solely by their consequences, and in particular their consequences for the sum total of human happiness. In Part II Bernard Williams offers (...)
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  19. A defense of rule utilitarianism against David Lyons who insists on tieing it to act utilitarianism, plus a brand new way of checking out general utilitarian properties.Gertrude Ezorsky - 1968 - Journal of Philosophy 65 (18):533 - 544.
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    Professor Sidgwick's utilitarianism.Hastings Rashdall - 1885 - Mind 10 (38):200-226.
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    De xing zhu yi yi huo shi gong zhu yi: Zhu Xi, Chen Liang "wang ba yi li" zhi zheng ji qi zheng zhi si xiang shi yi yi = Moralism or Utilitarianism: the Debate of "Wang Ba Yi Li" between Chu Hsi and Ch'en Liang and its significance in the history of political thought.Xuefei Luo - 2017 - Guangzhou Shi: Shi jie tu shu chu ban Guangdong you xian gong si.
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    The equivalence of act and rule utilitarianism.Boruch A. Brody - 1967 - Philosophical Studies 18 (6):81 - 87.
  23. Towards a Satisfactory Formulation of Utilitarianism.R. I. Sikora - 1977 - Ratio (Misc.) 19 (1):68.
     
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    Incoherence, inconsistency, and moral theory: More on actual consequence utilitarianism.Marcus G. Singer - 1982 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 20 (3):375-391.
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    Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare’s Two-Level Utilitarianism.Robert Streiffer - 2016 - Environmental Ethics 38 (2):249-252.
  26. Utilitarianism and Co-Operation.Donald Regan - 1980 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    The author identifies and defines the features of traditional utilitarian theories which account for their appeal, demonstrates that no theory which is exclusively act-oriented can have all the properties that ultilitarians have attempted to build into their theories, and develops a new theory co-operative utilitarianism.
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    *15 Generation‐Relative Ethics and Classical Utilitarianism: A Comparison.Partha Dasgupta - 2001 - In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment. Oxford University Press.
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    Routledge Revivals: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986): An Examination of Utilitarianism.Lanny O. Ebenstein - 1991 - Routledge.
    First published in 1991, The Greatest Happiness Principle traces the history of the theory of utility, starting with the Bible, and running through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. It goes on to discuss the utilitarian theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill in detail, commenting on the latter's view of the Christianity of his day and his optimal socialist society. The book argues that the key theory of utility is fundamentally concerned with happiness, stating that happiness has largely been left (...)
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  29. Autonomy (The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism).Daniel Groll - 2017 - In Keith Burgess-Jackson, Psychological Egoism. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  30. Simple and general utilitarianism.Harry S. Silverstein - 1974 - Philosophical Review 83 (3):339-363.
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  31. Act vs. rule-utilitarianism.Donald C. Emmons - 1973 - Mind 82 (326):226-233.
  32. Conscience (rule) utilitarianism and the criminal law.R. B. Brandt - 1995 - Law and Philosophy 14 (1):65 - 89.
    A rule- utilitarian appraisal of criminal law requires that the total system, including punishments, is justified only if it will expectably maximize public benefit, including its stigmatizing some behaviors as "offenses" and its prescribed punishment of these, such as imprisonment, with (possible) deterrent effects. In view of the paucity of evidence about the deterrent effect of prison sentences, some changes seem to be in order: reduction in the length of incarceration, replacement of prison by fines or restrictions on the convicted (...)
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  33. From universal prescriptivism to utilitarianism.J. W. Roxbee Cox - 1986 - Philosophical Quarterly 36 (142):1-15.
  34. The immortality of utilitarianism and the escapism of rule-utilitarianism.George C. Kerner - 1971 - Philosophical Quarterly 21 (82):36-50.
  35. Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy.Robert E. Goodin - 1995 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Utilitarianism, the great reforming philosophy of the nineteenth century, has today acquired the reputation for being a crassly calculating, impersonal philosophy unfit to serve as a guide to moral conduct. Yet what may disqualify utilitarianism as a personal philosophy makes it an eminently suitable guide for public officials in the pursuit of their professional responsibilities. Robert E. Goodin, a philosopher with many books on political theory, public policy and applied ethics to his credit, defends utilitarianism against its (...)
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    The Contemporary Evolution and Reform of Utilitarianism.Shuyang Liu - 2023 - Springer Nature Singapore.
    This book is a monograph on contemporary utilitarianism, focusing on its evolving path and logic. It describes the evolution of utilitarianism from the classical model to the contemporary model and then summarizes the characteristics of contemporary utilitarianism, revealing its advantages and disadvantages. This book points out that the best characteristic of contemporary utilitarianism is to give up traditional view of individualism and take balanced attitude to the relationship between individual and community. The change makes the goal (...)
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    Utilitarianism: with related remarks from Mill's other writings.John Stuart Mill - 2017 - Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. Edited by Ben Eggleston.
    This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ranging from his treatise on logic to his personal correspondence. In these remarks, Mill comments on specific passages of Utilitarianism, elaborates on topics he handles briefly in Utilitarianism, and discusses additional aspects of his moral thought. Short introductory comments accompany the related remarks, and an editor's introduction provides an overview of Utilitarianism crafted specifically to enhance (...)
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  38. Is There an Obligation to Abort? Act Utilitarianism and the Ethics of Procreation.Leonard Kahn - 2019 - Essays in Philosophy 20 (1):24-41.
    Most Act-Utilitarians, including Singer are Permissivists who claim that their theory usually permits abortion. In contrast, a minority, including Hare and Tännsjö, are Restrictionists who assert that Act-Utilitarianism usually limits abortion. I argue that both Permissivists and Restrictionists have misunderstood AU’s radical implications for abortion: AU entails that abortion is, in most cases in the economically developed world, morally obligatory. According to AU, it is morally obligatory for A to do F in circumstances C if and only if A’s (...)
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    Nathan on projectivist utilitarianism.David Gordon - 1985 - Erkenntnis 23 (2):201 - 202.
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  40. Structural similarities between utilitarianism and deontology.Carl R. Kordig - 1974 - Journal of Value Inquiry 8 (1):52-56.
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    Liberalism and utilitarianism.D. A. Lloyd Thomas - 1980 - Ethics 90 (3):319-334.
  42. Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism.Alain Trannoy & John A. Weymark - 2008 - In Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur, Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume Ii: Society, Institutions, and Development. Oxford University Press.
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  43. Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism.Alain Trannoy & John A. Weymark - 2008 - In Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur, Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume Ii: Society, Institutions, and Development. Oxford University Press.
     
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    Liberal Utilitarianism.Paul Weirich - 1989 - Philosophical Books 30 (3):182-183.
    This book review describes and evaluates Jonathan Riley's views about utilitarianism.
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  45. Utilitarianism and the pandemic.Julian Savulescu, Ingmar Persson & Dominic Wilkinson - 2020 - Bioethics 34 (6):620-632.
    There are no egalitarians in a pandemic. The scale of the challenge for health systems and public policy means that there is an ineluctable need to prioritize the needs of the many. It is impossible to treat all citizens equally, and a failure to carefully consider the consequences of actions could lead to massive preventable loss of life. In a pandemic there is a strong ethical need to consider how to do most good overall. Utilitarianism is an influential moral (...)
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    Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic.James E. Crimmins - 2021 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins provides a fresh perspective on the history of antebellum American political thought. Based on a broad-ranging study of the dissemination and reception of utilitarian ideas in the areas of constitutional politics, law education, law reform, moral theory and political economy, Crimmins illustrates the complexities of the place of utilitarianism in the intellectual ferment of the times, in both its secular and religious forms, intersection with other doctrines, and practical (...)
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    Utilitarianism: A Contemporary Statement.Robin Barrow - 1991 - Routledge.
    In this book, first published in 1991, the author Dr Robin Barrow adopts the view that utilitarianism is the most coherent and persuasive ethical theory we have and argues in favour of a specific form of rule-utilitarianism. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy.
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  48. Utilitarianism and Beyond.Amartya Sen & Bernard Williams (eds.) - 1982 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    A volume of studies of utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice. All but two of the papers have been commissioned especially for the volume, and between them they represent not only a wide range of arguments for and against utilitarianism but also a first-class selection of the most interesting and influential work in this very active area. There is also a substantial introduction by the two editors. The volume will (...)
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  49. Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics.Matti Häyry - 1994 - New York: Routledge.
    _Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics_ explores the foundations of early utilitarianism and, at the same time, the theoretical bases of social ethics and policy in modern Western welfare states. Matti Hayry sees the main reason for utilitarianism's growing disrepute among moral philosophers is that its principles cannot legitimately be extended to situations where the basic needs of the individuals involved are in conflict. He is able to formulate a solution to this fundamental problem by arguing convincingly that (...)
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  50. Utilitarianism, Welfare, Children.Anthony Skelton - 2014 - In Alexander Bagattini & Colin Macleod, The Nature of Children's Well-Being: Theory and Practice. Springer. pp. 85-103.
    Utilitarianism is the view according to which the only basic requirement of morality is to maximize net aggregate welfare. This position has implications for the ethics of creating and rearing children. Most discussions of these implications focus either on the ethics of procreation and in particular on how many and whom it is right to create, or on whether utilitarianism permits the kind of partiality that child rearing requires. Despite its importance to creating and raising children, there are, (...)
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