Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/utilitarianism-philosophy
Description: Feb 16, 2024 · Utilitarianism, in normative ethics, a tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill according to which an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness.
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Link: https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/utilitarianism
Description: Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that determines right from wrong by focusing on outcomes. It is a form of consequentialism. Utilitarianism holds that the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number.
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
Description: In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. In other words, utilitarian ideas encourage actions that ensure the greatest good for the greatest number.
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Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/utilitarianism-history/
Description: Mar 27, 2009 · Utilitarianism is one of the most powerful and persuasive approaches to normative ethics in the history of philosophy. Though not fully articulated until the 19 th century, proto-utilitarian positions can be discerned throughout the history of ethical theory.
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Link: https://www.worldhistory.org/Utilitarianism/
Description: Feb 19, 2024 · Utilitarianism involves the greatest happiness principle, which holds that a law or action is good if it promotes the greatest happiness of the greatest number, happiness being defined as the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain. Origins of Utilitarianism.
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Link: https://iep.utm.edu/util-a-r/
Description: Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. Like other forms of consequentialism, its core idea is that whether actions are morally right or wrong depends on their effects. More specifically, the only effects of actions that are relevant are the good and bad results that they produce.
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Link: https://www.utilitarianism.net/
Description: What Is Utilitarianism? Utilitarianism is not a single viewpoint, but a family of related ethical theories. What these theories have in common is their focus on bringing about the best consequences for the world by improving the lives of all sentient beings.
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Link: https://www.britannica.com/summary/utilitarianism-philosophy
Description: utilitarianism, Ethical principle according to which an action is right if it tends to maximize happiness, not only that of the agent but also of everyone affected. Thus, utilitarians focus on the consequences of an act rather than on its intrinsic nature or the motives of the agent ( see consequentialism).
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Link: https://iep.utm.edu/history-of-utilitarianism/
Description: The term “utilitarianism” is most-commonly used to refer to an ethical theory or a family of related ethical theories. It is taken to be a form of consequentialism, which is the view that the moral status of an action depends on the kinds of consequences the action produces.
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Link: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/abstract/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0431.xml
Description: Nov 29, 2022 · Utilitarianism is a moral theory that judges actions based on their consequences—specifically, based on their effects on well-being. Most utilitarians take well-being to be constituted largely by happiness, and historically utilitarianism has been known by the phrase “the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”
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