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159 documents for objections to utilitarianism

- Goodness and Justice: A Consequentialist Moral Theory
Cloth, $80.00-As novel as it is unfashionable, Goodness and Justice seeks to evade certain intuitive objections to classical utilitarianism through the unlikely marriage of a hedonic conception of the good and an egalitarian conception of distributive justice. With a nod to two often-divergent approaches in contemporary analytic ethics, Mendola structures his ambitious project around meeting two tests: provide a "direct argument" that gives a "transcendental vindication" of his moral claims and show how such a position is consonant with our "commonsense intuitions" about certain concrete cases.
- Review of Metaphysics, The
- Vol. 61 Nbr. 3, March 2008
- Other people's lives: reflections on medicine, ethics, and euthanasia.
... derived from the principle of utilitarianism ("man desires as much happiness and as little suff... guided by caution, wisdom, and moral objections. . Cautious people are reluctant to issue clear in...
- Issues in Law & Medicine
- Vol. 26 Nbr. 3, March 2011
- New York v. Quarles, 467 U.S. 649 (1984)
... The Miranda Court itself considered objections akin to those raised by the Court today. In dissen... in the beguiling language of utilitarianism, the Court has sanctioned sub silentio criminal pr...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Utility maximization, morality, and religion.
.... Utilitarianism is a tradition that requires that I treat the welf..., some philosophers have raised similar objections to preference utilitarianism (Sober 2001, 436-445)...
- Journal of Economic Issues
- Vol. 39 Nbr. 2, June 2005
- Undue process.
...Rights retrofitted 2. Utilitarianism and rule of law C. Undue Process as Constitutional...Nightmares Relived 1. Plausible objections 2. Implausible objections CONCLUSION He has no equ...
- Stanford Law Review
- Vol. 59 Nbr. 3, December 2006
- The problem of 'dirty hands' and corrupt leadership.
.... Teleology: Utilitarianism . The most influential rival to strictly deontolog.... One of the most oft-rehearsed objections to utilitarianism is that it would in some cases p...
- Independent Review
- Vol. 8 Nbr. 3, January 2004
- Fired, in a crowded theater: can a Catholic professor speak about homosexuality without risking his job? Meghan Duke on the case of Professor Ken Howell vs. the University of Illinois.
...The subject line was "Utilitarianism and Sexuality." Howell had sent it late that eveni... Howell also felt well prepared for the objections his students would raise. . But Howell's May 3 lec...
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Nbr. 2010, January 2010
- Foundation and form of the field of business ethics.
... to philosophical ethics: utilitarianism, rights, and justice. Given that the article was p...Barry, B., and C. U. Stephens. 1998. "Objections to an Objectivist Approach to Integrity." Academy ...
- Journal of Private Enterprise
- Vol. 21 Nbr. 2, March 2006
- Beyond rehabilitation: a new theory of indeterminate sentencing.
...Responding to Objections 1. Violations of Prison Rules Are Not Breaches of ... here is not that crime-control utilitarianism is incapable of justifying ISS, but simply that it...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 48 Nbr. 3, June 2011
- A modest proposal for institutional economics.
...It parts company with utilitarianism in its rejection of any kind of aggregative scheme... way avoids well-known philosophical objections to utilitarianism (for example, the moral monstros...
- Journal of Economic Issues
- Vol. 38 Nbr. 3, September 2004