Utilitarian ethics are difficult to achieve in the workplace, however. These ethics can be challenging to maintain in our business culture where a capitalistic economy often teaches people to ...

Obviously utilitarian ethical thinking is alive and well in baseball and business. If you follow utilitarian ethics you do a cost-benefit analysis before making decisions about following ...

Ethics are a set of principles dealing with what is good and bad, and concerns moral duty and obligation. Those moral principles apply not just to personal lives, but also to business and, topica ...

John Harris is an influential UK bioethicist whose hard core utilitarianism makes his ideas dangerous and potentially as tyrannical as those of Peter Singer–perhaps more. I first became aware… ...

Paine, L. S. "Utilitarianism and the Goodness of Persons." In Foundations of Ethics. Vol. 4, edited by Leroy Rouner. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. About The Author. Lynn S. Paine.

Next, utilitarianism is positioned in relation to Kantianism and virtue ethics, and the possibility of conflict between utilitarianism and fairness is considered. Finally, the volume explores the ...

There is thus a practical incoherence - a basic failure of logistical analysis - to Singer's utilitarian argument for vegetarianism that reflects a general challenge to consequentialist ethics.

Chelsea Handler embraced a minimalist look during her appearance at the tree lighting at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on Sunday evening. With the tree adorned in twinkling blue, gold and silver ...

In a philosophy seminar many years ago I called utilitarian ethics ‘the moral view from nowhere’. Like so many smart-ass undergrads I was riffing from a ...