Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism, belaboured by repeated counterexamples, has fallen out of favour as an ethical theory. In Utilitarianism: Restorations; Repairs; Renovations, noted Canadian philosopher David Braybrooke revisits Jeremy Bentham''s master idea that statistical evidence should determine social policies, and – perhaps surprisingly, given Braybooke''s recent championship of natural law – dispels the dis...
Utilitarianism, belaboured by repeated counterexamples, has fallen out of favour as an ethical theory. In Utilitarianism: Restorations; Repairs; Renovations, noted Canadian philosopher David Braybrooke revisits Jeremy Bentham''s master idea that statistical evidence should determine social policies, and – perhaps surprisingly, given Braybooke''s recent championship of natural law – dispels the dis...
