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happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. In other words, utilitarian ideas encourage actions that ensure the greatest good for the greatest...

In social choice and operations research, the utilitarian rule (also called the max-sum rule) is a rule saying that, among all possible alternatives,...

Utilitarian bioethics refers to the branch of bioethics that incorporates principles of utilitarianism to directing practices and resources where they...

Utilitarian is the fourteenth studio album by British grindcore band Napalm Death. It was released in the UK on 27 February 2012 and globally on 28 February...

Act utilitarianism is a utilitarian theory of ethics that states that a person's act is morally right if and only if it produces the best possible results...

of society to be governed in a political order. In the 19th century, utilitarian philosophers such as John Stuart Mill said that justice is served by...

Mendenhall, Grace H. (2013). Mozi: the Man, the Consequentialist, and the Utilitarian (Bachelors of Arts thesis). College of William and Mary. Roger Bacon...

For rule utilitarians, the correctness of a rule is determined by the amount of good it brings about when followed. In contrast, act utilitarians judge an...

Utilitarian genocide is one of five forms of genocide categorized and defined in 1975 by genocide scholar Vahakn Dadrian. Utilitarian genocide is distinctly...

there can be nothing that is in itself good or bad: for preference utilitarians, the source of both morality and ethics in general is subjective preference...

pleasure it receives outweighs the suffering it may cause. Nozick writes: Utilitarian theory is embarrassed by the possibility of utility monsters who get...

Form follows function is a principle of design associated with late 19th- and early 20th-century architecture and industrial design in general, which states...

specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he...

Utilitarian cake-cutting (also called maxsum cake-cutting) is a rule for dividing a heterogeneous resource, such as a cake or a land-estate, among several...

The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure...

Approval voting is an electoral system in which voters can select any number of candidates instead of selecting only one. Approval voting ballots show...

items do not offer that kind of imagery and are therefore connected with utilitarian purposes. While income facilitates item purchase behaviour, income's...

The Mouvement anti-utilitariste dans les sciences sociales (Anti-utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences) is a French intellectual movement. It is...

"The utilitarian doctrine is, that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being only desirable as means to...

In other words, the goal is to find an item allocation satisfying the utilitarian rule. An equivalent problem in the context of combinatorial auctions...