You’re a streetcar operator. If you need more specifics, let’s say it’s fin de siècle Vienna and you’ve got a jaunty cap. Oh ...

The British writer Kenan Malik describes After Virtue as a “brilliant, bleak, frustrating and above all provocative” work, ...

A World In Making, an exhibition highlighting the design principles of the 18th-century Shaker Christian sect.

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As a philosophical moral theory, utilitarianism has two foundational characteristics. Primarily, it is a consequentialist moral theory. This means that it is solely concerned with the outcome rather ...

In the previous two articles on Utilitarianism, we tried to understand the concept and its application through a case. Today, let’s take the discussion forward. We know most of the arguments of ...

Utilitarianism guides us to make decisions that maximize overall happiness and well-being. We highlight 10 essential books that offer valuable insights into how this ethical theory applies to everyday ...

Hence, in this series of Ethics Simplified we begin with ethical theories from today. Let’s start first by defining and explaining the theory of Utilitarianism. If the action is maximising happiness ...

But does it fly in the face of commonsense moral thinking? I will argue that it does not. My argument is based on hedonistic utilitarianism.2 This means that it is an instance of the general pattern ...