If you answered yes, you were probably using a form of moral reasoning called "utilitarianism." Stripped down to its essentials, utilitarianism is a moral principle that holds that the morally right ...

To deal with these situations, there is no better tool than utilitarianism, for it makes those trade-offs explicit and ...

An approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions that is informed by the ethical theory of utilitarianism would lead to better outcomes for human development, equity, and the climate, according to a ...

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Would you sacrifice one person to save five? Such moral choices could depend on whether you are using a foreign language or your native tongue. A new study from psychologists finds that people using a ...

Some customers take a utilitarian approach to your offerings, some engage emotionally and some fanatically. The path to success is different for each. With utilitarians, use continuity programs. With ...

The contemporary animal rights movement owes a great intellectual debt to Peter Singer's pathbreaking book Animal Liberation. In that book, Singer made a break with the dominant but limited Kantian ...