Nov 21, 2007 · An example of this is the positing of rights not being violated, or duties being kept, as part of the Good to be maximized—the so-called “utilitarianism of rights” (Nozick 1974). …

May 20, 2003 · Classic utilitarianism is consequentialist as opposed to deontological because of what it denies. It denies that moral rightness depends directly on anything other than …

Jul 18, 2003 · In its particular versions, for deontology there is the question of how to justify its claims that certain moral rules are the correct ones, and for utilitarianism of how to justify its …

Mar 27, 2009 · Thus, even though writers such as Price were sympathetic to certain features of utilitarianism, such as the core idea that benevolence, or a concern for the well-being of …

Oct 9, 2007 · Perhaps certain kinds of actions tend to be good or bad, but, according to direct utilitarianism, the moral quality of a particular action depends on its own consequences. By …

Dec 31, 2003 · Historically, utilitarianism has been the best-known form of consequentialism. Utilitarianism assesses acts and/or character traits, practices, and institutions solely in terms of …

Feb 23, 2004 · It is of considerable interest to those who follow Kant to determine which reading — teleological or deontological — was Kant’s, as well as which view ought to have been his.

Aug 30, 2007 · In particular, contractualism aspires to provide a non-utilitarian theory that grounds moral status on a universal trait of persons—rational moral agency—and thus provides …

Nov 25, 2020 · Roughly, on this model, one moral theory or other (e.g., utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, virtue theory) is imposed upon the applied ethics problem at hand, in the hopes of …

Aug 22, 2022 · To illustrate, consider two moral theories: utilitarian theological voluntarism and utilitarian act-consequentialism. These two explain the same data set: that all and only acts …