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Author: Robert E. Goodin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-05-26
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0521462630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoodin defends utilitarianism and shows how it can serve as an excellent guide to public policy makers.
Author: Robert E. Goodin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-05-26
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521462631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert E. Goodin, a philosopher with many books on political theory, public policy and applied ethics to his credit, defends utilitarianism against its critics and shows how it can be applied most effectively over a wide range of public policies. In discussions of such issues as paternalism, social welfare policy, international ethics, nuclear armaments, and international responses to the environment crisis, he demonstrates what a flexible tool his brand of utilitarianism can be in confronting the dilemmas of public policy in the real world.
Author: James Wood Bailey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0195105109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar from recommending cruel acts, utilitarianism, understood this way, actually runs congruent to our basic moral intuitions.
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher: London : Parker, Son and Bourn
Published: 1863
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilitarianism, by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, is one of his most influential works and is a philosophical defense of utilitarian ethical theory. This publication remained a relevant publication since its original publication in the mid 19th century, as is still relevant in the application of utility in regard to social policy. This is an important work for those studying the concept of utilitarianism, or those who are interested in the writings of John Stuart Mill.
Author: Ben Eggleston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-01-30
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1139867482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilitarianism, the approach to ethics based on the maximization of overall well-being, continues to have great traction in moral philosophy and political thought. This Companion offers a systematic exploration of its history, themes, and applications. First, it traces the origins and development of utilitarianism via the work of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, and others. The volume then explores issues in the formulation of utilitarianism, including act versus rule utilitarianism, actual versus expected consequences, and objective versus subjective theories of well-being. Next, utilitarianism is positioned in relation to Kantianism and virtue ethics, and the possibility of conflict between utilitarianism and fairness is considered. Finally, the volume explores the modern relevance of utilitarianism by considering its practical implications for contemporary controversies such as military conflict and global warming. The volume will be an important resource for all those studying moral philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, and history of ideas.
Author: Lincoln Allison
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Published: 1990-03
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the capacity of utilitarianism to respond to the challenge of theories such as those of Rawls, Nozick and Dworkin, which focus primarily on the individual. Its central questions concern the intellectual coherence and moral acceptability of utilitarian answers to important problems, including health care, punishment and electoral arrangements. Its key themes are the relationship between private ethics and public policy, between utility and freedom, utility and democracy, and the role and limitations of states, both internally and internationally.
Author: Georgios Varouxakis
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2019-07-29
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1787350487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHappiness and Utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it in earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Drawing on a range of philosophical and historical approaches to the study of the central idea of utilitarianism, the chapters provide a rich set of insights into a founding component of ethics and modern political and economic thought, as well as political and economic practice. In doing so, the chapters examine the multiple dimensions of utilitarianism and the contested interpretations of this standard for judgement in morality and public policy.
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-06-10
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521287715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice.
Author: James E. Crimmins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 100047660X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 outcomes. The pragmatic character of American political thought revealed—culminating in the postbellum rise of Pragmatism—stands in marked contrast to the conventional interpretations of intellectual history in this period. Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic will be of interest to academic specialists, and graduate and senior undergraduate students engaged in the history of political thought, moral philosophy and legal philosophy, particularly scholars with interests in utilitarianism, the trans-Atlantic transfer of ideas, the American political tradition and modern American intellectual history.
Author: J. J. C. Smart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1107268079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo 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 a sustained and vigorous critique of utilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals. He finds inadequate the theory of action implied by utilitarianism, and he argues that utilitarianism fails to engage at a serious level with the real problems of moral and political philosophy, and fails to make sense of notions such as integrity, or even human happiness itself. This book should be of interest to welfare economists, political scientists and decision-theorists.
