Not your standard consequentialism-deontology distinction| www.goodthoughts.blog
Explores the three major theories of well-being, or what makes a life good for the individual living it: hedonism, desire theory, and objective list theory.| Utilitarianism.net
This chapter presents a toolkit of general strategies for responding to objections to utilitarianism, before introducing the most influential specific objections to the theory.| Utilitarianism.net
Is utilitarianism undermined by our inability to predict the long-term consequences of our actions? This article explores whether utilitarians can still be guided by near-term expected value even when this is small in comparison to the potential value or disvalue of the unknown long-term consequences.| Utilitarianism.net
After defining utilitarianism, this chapter offers a detailed analysis of its four key elements (consequentialism, welfarism, impartiality, and aggregationism). It explains the difference between maximizing, satisficing, and scalar utilitarianism, and other important distinctions between utilitarian theories.| Utilitarianism.net