Sentences with phrase «principles of utilitarianism»

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We argue that Nietzsche is embracing an ancient rather than a modern view of ethics, what has been called an «ethics of virtue» rather than an ethics of rules and principles, rather than an ethic that looks mainly to the spread of well - being and happiness («utilitarianism»).

The usual formulations of utilitarianism assume an individualism that in principle works against the common good.

He adds that Hartshorne's understanding of justice, like that of utilitarianism, is derived from the principle of utility (MH 31).

Moskop thus makes at least three important claims in his brief essay: I) that the five theses adequately and unambiguously represent the framework of Hartshorne's moral philosophy, 2) that Hartshorne's metaphysics justifies not only a broad understanding of altruism but rather a dependence upon an understanding of the principle of utility quite similar to that of utilitarianism, and 3) that in both Hartshorne's moral philosophy and his metaphysics the claims of justice are necessarily subordinate to those of utility.

I suspect that the force of the egoist's objection to his «proof» of utility did not strike Mill because of his previous arguments in Utilitarianism regarding the ultimate sanction of the principle of utility.