The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
“You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is of note that even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
