Answers Quote by Allen W. Wood

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest.

— Sara Pascoe

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on…

— Frans de Waal

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try…

— Peter Singer

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral…

— Richard Brancatisano

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

— Morton Blackwell

The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too…

— Dale Jamieson

“The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority of human…

— William Boyd

Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it can emulate…

— Dale Jamieson

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's…

— Aaron Ehasz