Utilitarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Utilitarianism is the idea that moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribution to overall utility: that is, its contribution to happiness or pleasure as summed among all people. It...
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Instead of looking at the consequences of a particular act, rule-utilitarianism determines rightness by finding the value of following a particular rule ... "Instead of looking at the consequences of a particular act, rule-utilitarianism determines the rightness of an act by a different method. First, the best rule of...
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www.utilitarianism.com/ruleutil.htm
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"According to act-utilitarianism, it is the value of the consequences of the particular act that counts when determining whether the act is right. Bentham's theory is act-utilitarian, ... Others have developed alternatives to act-utilitarianism, e.g. rule-utilitarianism, and other forms of indirect utilitarianism." ;
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www.utilitarianism.com/actutil.htm
www.utilitarianism.com/actutil.htm
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The Basic Idea of Utilitarianism ... Rule Utilitarianism is an option for those who believe that there are absolute ... Rule Utilitarianism: An action or policy is morally right if and only if it is...
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ACT UTILITARIANISM VERSUS RULE UTILITARIANISM ... Examples of RULE Utilitarianism ... So it seems (though it is not entirely clear!) that we should pick the action that maximizes happiness IN THIS CASE (are we back to Act Utilitarianism?).
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www.mc.maricopa.edu/~yount/text/actvrule-um.html
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There is a lot to be said for utilitarianism. Obviously, how lives go is important. ... The theory of morality we can call full rule-consequentialism selects rules solely in terms of the goodness of their consequences and then claims that these rules determine which kinds of acts are morally wrong. George Berkeley was...
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism-rule/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism-rule/
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Rule utilitarianism in philosophy. ... and the difficulty in the end of even distinguishing rule utilitarianism from act utilitarianism. ... Source: B A Brody, 'The Equivalence of Act and Rule Utilitarianism', Philosophical Studies (1967)
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John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, Chapter 2 ... Was Mill a Rule Utilitarian? ... A note on this text: Apart from minor editing, this text is taken without change from Chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1861). The text is in the public domain and may be freely reproduced.
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