Sentences with phrase «in utilitarian ethics»

It nonetheless took me months to stop thinking of myself like a thought experiment in utilitarian ethics — to see that strenuous acts of service weren't the only good things I was capable of doing.

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.

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Utilitarian views matter in these technological days, when religious ethics often seem insufficient.

It must be admitted that there are certain potential vices to virtue ethics even in its minimalist mode, i.e., even when it does not try to crowd out the legitimate insights of deontologists and utilitarians (e.g., from the deontological side, that there are limits — deontoi — regarding what any virtuous person can be permitted to do, and, from the utilitarian side, that there are calculations which are relevant regarding many moral decisions the virtuous person must make).

In fact, on several occasions Hartshorne himself is explicit in stating that his form of ethics is not utilitariaIn fact, on several occasions Hartshorne himself is explicit in stating that his form of ethics is not utilitariain stating that his form of ethics is not utilitarian.

Economists tend to be skeptical of that kind of reasoning, because they're generally utilitarians in their ethics, not Kantians.

In his analysis, Rolston avoids both utilitarian and bio-centric views of nature — allowing him to present a view that bridges these two ends of the environmental ethic spectrum.

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).