Utilitarianism and Consequentialism: How Far Do They Include 'Results' in Their Cost-Benefit Analysis?

Beyond Consequentialism to the Eigenvalues of ActionThe Diffusion of Causality and the Shadow of ChaosThe propositions of ...
Investopedia

Utilitarianism: What It Is, Founders, and Main Principles

Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. Eric's career includes extensive work in both ...
The New Criterion

What’s wrong with utilitarianism

The last time my wife and I were in London together, we had dinner at the Garrick Club with an eminent political philosopher and his wife. We’d walked out on some horrible West End play after the ...
The Conversation

Telling right from wrong: why is utilitarianism under attack?

Is morality – and happiness – determined by how you affect the people around you? Shutterstock It is a word we hear from time to time, but few of us know what it means. Utilitarianism is the method ...
The Guardian

Utilitarianism – it's the best we've got

It reduces deliberation over the morality of events such as the killing of Bin Laden to calculation, but other theories are worse I'd forgotten all about Osama bin Laden. In fact, until I heard we'd ...