Add to ORKGUtilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in basing moral judgements on the consequences of conduct. As its dictates are determined by empirically determinable facts, it offers a procedure for settling moral controversies on objective grounds. One need not appeal, for example, to the dubious authority of ‘moral intuitions’. Claims like these are subject to familiar objections at various levels. I shall mention a representative sample and then focus on more serious difficulties stemming from aspects of utilitarianism that I believe have not been fully enough explored
Utilitarianism is the doctrine that decisions should promote good consequences. It is a normative th...
According to hedonistic act utilitarianism, an act is morally right if and only if, and because, it ...
Utilitarianism is the doctrine that decisions should promote good consequences. It is a normative th...
Utilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in b...
Utilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in b...
Utilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in b...
One can contrast the analogous general utilitarian principle in order to see whether it can be subje...
One can contrast the analogous general utilitarian principle in order to see whether it can be subje...
I believe that it was opposition to utilitarianism which first bred arguments claiming in one way or...
I argue that, were the utilitarian arguments for the use of interrogational torture in so-called tic...
Our moral motivations might include a drive towards maximizing overall welfare, consistent with an e...
Utilitarianism is in the ascendancy in many parts of public culture, but its stock among moral and p...
Research into moral decision-making has been dominated by sacrificial dilemmas where, in order to sa...
Research into moral decision-making has been dominated by sacrificial dilemmas where, in order to sa...
The assumption that moral judgements could never be objective stems from a series of misunderstandin...
Utilitarianism is the doctrine that decisions should promote good consequences. It is a normative th...
According to hedonistic act utilitarianism, an act is morally right if and only if, and because, it ...
Utilitarianism is the doctrine that decisions should promote good consequences. It is a normative th...
Utilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in b...
Utilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in b...
Utilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in b...
One can contrast the analogous general utilitarian principle in order to see whether it can be subje...
One can contrast the analogous general utilitarian principle in order to see whether it can be subje...
I believe that it was opposition to utilitarianism which first bred arguments claiming in one way or...
I argue that, were the utilitarian arguments for the use of interrogational torture in so-called tic...
Our moral motivations might include a drive towards maximizing overall welfare, consistent with an e...
Utilitarianism is in the ascendancy in many parts of public culture, but its stock among moral and p...
Research into moral decision-making has been dominated by sacrificial dilemmas where, in order to sa...
Research into moral decision-making has been dominated by sacrificial dilemmas where, in order to sa...
The assumption that moral judgements could never be objective stems from a series of misunderstandin...
Utilitarianism is the doctrine that decisions should promote good consequences. It is a normative th...
According to hedonistic act utilitarianism, an act is morally right if and only if, and because, it ...
Utilitarianism is the doctrine that decisions should promote good consequences. It is a normative th...