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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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.

This question can best be described as an application of what is called the Utilitarian Approach in ethics, which is defined by “A Framework for Ethical Decision Making” as making decisions that ...

Utilitarianism seems to require punishing the innocent in certain circumstances, such as these. It is wrong to punish an innocent person, because it violates his rights and is unjust.