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Utilitarianism

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dc.contributor.authorDrake, Nicholasen
dc.coverage.spatialNew Yorken
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-02T18:29:55Z
dc.date.available2025-06-02T18:29:55Z
dc.date.issued2024en
dc.description.abstractUtilitarianism is an ethical theory that was first systematically developed in England in the late eighteenth century. Utilitarianism is the view that an action is right to the extent that it promotes well-being. (Well-being is what you have if your life is going well.) When you’re deciding what the ethically right thing to do is, you should choose to do what promotes well-being the most, and no one’s well-being matters more than anyone else’s. (There are several kinds of utilitarianism that vary with that description in different ways, which we’ll look at later.) Utilitarianism can be viewed as the combination...en
dc.description.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.identifier.isbn9781438496856en
dc.identifier.isbn9781438496870en
dc.identifier.otherORCID:/0000-0002-8546-2671/work/184909979en
dc.identifier.scopus105019859017en
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18255555.12en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733756476
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSUNY Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofEthical Theory in Global Perspectiveen
dc.rights© 2024 State University of New York Pressen
dc.titleUtilitarianismen
dc.typeBook chapteren
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage142en
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage125en
local.contributor.affiliationDrake, Nicholas; School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen
local.identifier.doi10.1515/9781438496870-010en
local.identifier.pure423940f5-6556-412c-bae0-368d6e0f7a93en
local.identifier.urlhttps://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18255555.12en
local.type.statusPublisheden

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