Sentences with phrase «for utilitarian ethics»

On the other hand, Peter Singer (see Singer, 1976 and 1985) has consistently argued for a utilitarian ethic that includes all animal life.

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From the standpoint of utilitarian ethics, triage is the most moral option for making such medical selections.
The challenge to the church is to tap its tradition for those practices that will enable people to move beyond the utilitarian ethic of our individualistic,
Deontological and utilitarian theories can be seen as different versions of an ethics of duty wherein one is supposed to have a disposition to choose for the sake of what is antecedently established as right.
Furthermore, Paley's utilitarian ethics portrayed all living beings as having been designed for human benefit.
My proposal was an attempt to add in a utilitarian ethic (mandatory use of seat belts and car seats is based on a utilitarian ethic imposed on autonomy) to assure the best outcome for those who prefer home birth.
That is deontological, utilitarian, justice, ecocentric, biocentric, and relationship based ethics would not condone using scientific uncertainty as justification for not reducing high levels of greenhouse gas emissions given what is not in dispute among mainstream climate scientists (See Brown, 2002: 141 - 148).
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