Contemporary Utilitarianism

Author : William Shaw
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631202936
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Ethics written by William Shaw and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-01-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at undergraduates, Contemporary Ethics presupposes little or no familiarity with ethics and is written in a clear and engaging style. It provides students with a sympathetic but critical guide to utilitarianism, explaining its different forms and exploring the debates it has spawned. The book leads students through a number of current issues in contemporary ethics that are connected to controversies over and within utilitarianism. At the same time, it uses utilitarianism to introduce students to ethics as a subject. In these ways, the book is not only a guide to utilitarianism, but also an introduction to some standard problems of ethics and to several important topics in contemporary ethical theory.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108077935
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued in its corrected 1864 second edition, this seminal text is Mill's major defence of his utilitarian theory of morality.

Author : Robin Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317406540
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utilitarianism written by Robin Barrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1991, the author Dr Robin Barrow adopts the view that utilitarianism is the most coherent and persuasive ethical theory we have and argues in favour of a specific form of rule-utilitarianism. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy.

Author : Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199603693
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Point of View of the Universe written by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tests the views and metaphor of 19th-century utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick against a variety of contemporary views on ethics, determining that they are defensible and thus providing a defense of objectivism in ethics and of hedonistic utilitarianism.

Author : William H. Shaw
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780631202943
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Ethics written by William H. Shaw and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presupposing little or no familiarity with ethics, this book provides students with a sympathetic but critical guide to utilitarianism, explaining its different forms and exploring the debates it has spawned. It also leads students through a number of issues in contemporary ethics.

Author : Shuyang Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819973635
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Evolution and Reform of Utilitarianism written by Shuyang Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a monograph on contemporary utilitarianism, focusing on its evolving path and logic. It describes the evolution of utilitarianism from the classical model to the contemporary model and then summarizes the characteristics of contemporary utilitarianism, revealing its advantages and disadvantages. This book points out that the best characteristic of contemporary utilitarianism is to give up traditional view of individualism and take balanced attitude to the relationship between individual and community. The change makes the goal of contemporary utilitarianism from the pursuit of maximizing the sum of individual utilities to optimal social utility. Therefore, the contemporary utilitarianism gradually evolves a public philosophy with multiple interests structure, which provides a new way to solve the contradiction between personal interest and public interest. Utilitarianism is still an important political philosophy in western society, but its existing defects actually make it difficult to have a transformative impact on western institutional structure and system. The target audience of this book are students and researchers majoring in politics and ethics.

Author : Daniel R. DeNicola
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460406605
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction written by Daniel R. DeNicola and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. Engaging with both historical and contemporary figures, this book explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality. DeNicola traces our various attempts to ground morality: in nature, in religion, in culture, in social contracts, and in aspects of the human person such as reason, emotions, caring, and intuition.

Author : Ben Eggleston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867482
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism written by Ben Eggleston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilitarianism, the approach to ethics based on the maximization of overall well-being, continues to have great traction in moral philosophy and political thought. This Companion offers a systematic exploration of its history, themes, and applications. First, it traces the origins and development of utilitarianism via the work of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, and others. The volume then explores issues in the formulation of utilitarianism, including act versus rule utilitarianism, actual versus expected consequences, and objective versus subjective theories of well-being. Next, utilitarianism is positioned in relation to Kantianism and virtue ethics, and the possibility of conflict between utilitarianism and fairness is considered. Finally, the volume explores the modern relevance of utilitarianism by considering its practical implications for contemporary controversies such as military conflict and global warming. The volume will be an important resource for all those studying moral philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, and history of ideas.

Author : Michael D. Bayles
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Utilitarianism written by Michael D. Bayles and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew T. Forcehimes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624668321
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Utilitarianism written by Andrew T. Forcehimes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Through Utilitarianism: A Guide to Contemporary Arguments offers something new among texts elucidating the ethical theory known as Utilitarianism. Intended primarily for students ready to dig deeper into moral philosophy, it examines, in a dialectical and reader-friendly manner, a set of normative principles and a set of evaluative principles leading to what is perhaps the most defensible version of Utilitarianism. With the aim of laying its weaknesses bare, each principle is serially introduced, challenged, and then defended. The result is a battery of stress tests that shows with great clarity not only what is attractive about the theory, but also where its problems lie. It will fascinate any student ready for a serious investigation into what we ought to do and what is of value.