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Utilitarianism
Powerpoint: Peter Singer’s Preference Utilitarianism
An exploration of Peter Singer’s Preference Utilitarianism. Preference utilitarianism from Peped Preference utilitarianism from Peped
Read MoreFilm: Index for Utilitarianism
Next (2007) There’s a nuclear bomb somewhere in LA and Nicholas Cage’s character is the only person who can help. He…
Read MoreCase Study: Von Stauffenberg
Claus von Stauffenberg Few of us will ever find ourselves in a position to kill one to save the many: the…
Read MoreRoger Crisp on Utilitarianism (Philosophy Bites)
Click here for Roger Crisp’s excellent podcast on Bentham and Mill, explaining the hedonistic view of Bentham and Mill. Can we…
Read MoreExtract 1: Brave New World and soma
David Pearce reviews Brave New World on www.huxley .net J.J. Smart produces the example of a pleasure machine in his book…
Read MoreExtract 2: The ones who walk away from Omelas
The Ones that Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin Adapted from Louis Pojman's summary (2002) page 128. (The film…
Read MoreExtract 3: Daniel Jacobson’s multilevel defence of utilitarianism
Daniel Jacobson defines the multilevel approach like this: Multilevel theories distinguish between an intuitive and a critical level of moral thinking….
Read MoreExtract 4: The Happy Warrior – Wordsworth
Wordsworth's The Happy Warrior as an alternative concept of happiness. Martha Nussbaum argues that Wordsworth's The Character of the Happy Warrior…
Read MoreExtract 5: Verdict of history – David Newsome on the legacy of Utilitarianism
Paradoxes of the Utilitarian position The historian David Newsome explains the legacy, and the paradoxes, of the Utilitarian position – still…
Read MoreExtract 6: Singer and Act Utilitarianism
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-231-ethics-fall-2009/lecture-notes/MIT24_231F09_lec16.pdf
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