Sentences with phrase «rule utilitarianism»

Introduces «Rule Utilitarianism» as well as the notions of higher and lower pleasure and allows students to compare the «Principle of Utility» with the «Greatest Happiness Principle».

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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»).

In this effort I hope to show that Hartshorne's thought is an improvement with respect to some of the weaker features of virtue ethics as it has been defended by some recent philosophers, in particular regarding the allegation made by virtue ethnicians that deontology and utilitarianism are defective because they depend on abstract rules.

This understanding of freedom follows from the natural - rights liberal thought of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Nozick, but it is also consistent with the rights - generating rule - utilitarianism of Herbert Spencer and others.

It seems as though any attempt to escape arbitrary social rules via utilitarianism eventually runs smack into a set of somewhat biased and arbitrary social rules that must be implemented in order to measure and compare the utility of different groups of people.

Scheme of work that covers ethical problems, ethical rules and briefly covers Utilitarianism and some aspects of Kantian Deontology.