Blogs about: Utilitarianism
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In the blogs, 10/27/08
In the blogs today, October 27, 2008: At 4:30, Becca wonders to what extent we are really responsible for the outcomes of our actions Gordon asks how it could possible seem reasonable to divorce exa… more →
Thinking Goodly
More on Singer, Utilitarianism, and Animal Rights
Liza wrote 1 hour ago: Jim has made the case that sentience is problematic as a ground for membership within the moral comm … more →
Exploitation
questionbeggar wrote 3 days ago: One argument for wealth redistribution is utilitarian in nature. Due to the decreasing marginal util … more →
So what next?
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Bruce wrote 6 days ago: In the past few years, with numerous books dedicated to discussion of the godless condition, there h … more →
How good are our lives?
questionbeggar wrote 1 week ago: Some people are total utilitarians; all they care about is maximizing the sum total of utility in th … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Virtue Ethics
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fleance7 wrote 1 week ago: Image via Wikipedia Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative eth … more →
the proper welfare scale
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questionbeggar wrote 1 week ago: People can be happy to different degrees. In other words, they can be at different levels of welfare … more →
Act Utilitarianism
Zan wrote 1 week ago: We know that all good categories have sub categories. Luckily, Utilitarians just couldn’t agre … more →
Happy Independence Day
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Marius Ostrowski wrote 1 week ago: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by t … more →
Utilitarianism
Zan wrote 1 week ago: Great – so we have this fancy word of six syllables (count, you’ll see) and we know that … more →
Moral Philosophy
Zan wrote 1 week ago: It might be a bit ambitious to dive straight into ‘moral philosophy’ – it is a ter … more →
Liberty and Foreign Policy
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James E-J wrote 2 weeks ago: An issue that has kept me at a distance from a more doctrinaire libertarian politics is the issue of … more →
On Poverty
Gameli Anumu wrote 3 weeks ago: We live in a world where some people profit and others do not. If we want to actualize equality we m … more →
The Morality of Meat
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Po wrote 3 weeks ago: The following is a brief essay that I wrote 14 months ago. I’m posting this because I’ve … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Act / Rule Utilitarianism
fleance7 wrote 1 month ago: Image via Wikipedia Distinction between ways of applying the greatest happiness principle for … more →
The Case against Torture: Ethics vs. Morality
drbobschultz wrote 1 month ago: MSNBC TV commentators Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann in May 2009 found that they disagreed on the … more →
Abortion
threefinker wrote 1 month ago: Okay, Whilst listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GeXVKb2hbM ,that, it’s kind of gotte … more →
A Christian Refutation of an Atheist Rant
shotgunwildatheart wrote 1 month ago: I wrote the following in response to a blog that can be found by clicking here: http://blogs.myspace … more →
The Neuroscience of Our Moral Smorgasbord
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Michael wrote 1 month ago: Continuing the discussion I posted about earlier, Conor Clarke has responded to Greg Mankiw’s … more →
Utilitarianism and Tax Policy
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Michael wrote 1 month ago: Greg Mankiw and Conor Clarke had a back-and-forth today about Mankiw’s recent paper on the uti … more →
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