(I had no idea I'd be writing about politics today.) Hey! Let's start with Elie Wiesel: "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." I was reading the comments on a YT video "How

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Last week I listened to an interview. The author being interviewed was a raging pragmatist. Very utilitarian. I found the interview disgusting for all the same reasons I always find pragmatism and

See two news today: The director of Jinyintan Hospital urges recovered patients to donate plasma to save critical patients Six people who were discharged from Shanghai Xinguan were willing to donate plasma

How I prefer to make big (important) decisions First let me define a big decision as a decision which would potentially effect a lot of people (stakeholders). The greater the potential impact of the decision

In political philosophy there is a powerful argument against utilitarianism that runs as follows: If utilitarianism is true, then it is sometimes good to punish the innocent. The innocent person may suffer

Utilitarianism seems self-evidently true. You can disagree with the particulars, but the essence is correct—happiness and pleasure are good, while suffering and pain are bad. The utilitarianism of Mill

Utilitarianism, social justice, communism and all forms of collectivism regard the supreme rule of ethics as the ends justifying the means, however, in individual ethics, this notion is the denial of all

Utilitarianism is determined by the usefulness and consequences of how and why an act contributes to the increase of human benefit and happiness. In other words, it is utilitarianism to pay attention to

…after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous

In recent years, it has been speculated that Jeremy Bentham was an autist. This speculation arises out of Bentham’s extreme attempts at systematizing human interactions in his formulation of Utilitarianism.

Contractualism has its known option which utilitarianism Image Source When the contractualist question is gotten some information about specific standards or practices, however around a whole arrangement

The ultimate yielding of welfare which is the demand of utilitarianism has no limits Image Source There is no restriction to what a man may do to enhance the world, with the exception of the limits of

Manufacturing happiness through capitalism So in my previous post I brought up the question of whether the "free market" which I don't believe actually exists, is aiming to achieve the goal of

Individual welfare has been taken by utilitarianism as subject of ethical thought Image Source There are numerous types of utilitarianism, they differ about how welfare is to be evaluated, and about different

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In part #10, the penultimate blog on this topic, I want to look at the concept of meliorism and the view that the world is capable of improvement by us by rightly directed human effort. Will it help? In

This is part II of a planned series of posts on the foundations of ethics. In the first part (which you should probably read first if you haven't) I made the case that ethics (from a systems perspective)

Brief understanding on the features of utilitarianism Image Source Utility is the inclusive currency on the grounds that the interest to it is sanely the majority of a piece with the interest to alternate

Bernard Williams on what makes consequentialism a distinctive moral theory For this week’s Argument in the Wild, I’ll be reading and discussing Bernard William’s “A Critique of Utilitarianism” from