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Utilitarianism - what's it all about
EQUALITY -- WHAT IT IS by Ted Honderich This is a continuation and the culmination of the long inquiry into many ideas of equality in the piece ' What Equality Is Not, Fortunately'. It sets out what seems to me the fundamental principle about equality and the true basis of egalitarianism. Or rather, more importantly, it sets out what seems to me the fundamental principle of morality, a principle ...
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/whatequalityis.htm
EQUALITY -- WHAT IT IS NOT by Ted Honderich This is a survey, in six sections, of almost all the main ideas of equality. It takes into account fierce critics of them, almost all of these critics being from the political tradition of Conservatism. This survey was not written yesterday, but it is not about history. The tradition of Conservatism did not wither away with the departures of Margaret ...
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/whatequalityisnot.htm
A reconciliation of Immanuel Kant's meta-physics of morals with utilitarianism ...
CONSEQUENTIALISM, MORALITIES OF CONCERN, AND SELFISHNESS Ted Honderich --------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: (1) Non-Consequentialism and Consequentialism are best identified ostensively, by giving two groups of reasons for the rightness of actions. Concentration on Utilitarianism distorts understanding of the second group. (2) Traditional causal conceptions ...
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted9.htm
FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM: COMPATIBILISM, INCOMPATIBILISM, AND THE SMART ALECK by Ted Honderich -- the Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website ---------------------------------------------------- Abstract: Richard Double's discussions of my view of determinism and freedom in Philosophy and Phenomenological Review and Philosophical Books seem to me to rest on six mistakes, as does his book The ...
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted6.htm
An argument for vegetarianism (Incomplete first draft) {apologies for apparent sexism, this may be fixed in a later draft} Introduction and Purpose This paper attempts an argument for vegetarianism. Its goal is to maximise utility, by decreasing the number of practicing meat eaters. It is an argument that assumes the reader holds a utilitarian position; if the reader does not, I have no hope of ...
www.utilitarian.org/animals/veggie.html
A survey and rebuttal of common criticisms against utilitarianism.
www.utilitarian.org/criticisms.html
Why is the so-called Golden Rule in ethics wrong
web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/golden.rule.html
A rebuttal of desire-fulfilment as the source of value ...
www.utilitarian.org/desire.html
A discussion of the impact of many worlds on the felicific calculus ...
www.utilitarian.org/odds.html
