Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - Utilitarianism

More than 120 brief thoughts from Pope Francis, with lengthy excerpt from his Laudato Si encyclical and full speeches to Congress and the U.N.

The thoughts are on the worship of money, the essence of work, exploitation, World War III, slavery, the elderly, playing with children, the importance of family, Islamophobia, Christianophobia, the stewardship of nature, people as leftovers, the financial crisis, superficial culture, the war industry, the spreading of goodness, and so on.

The Foreword is by Sister Barbara Staley, General Superior of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred...

These are questions that have bedeviled scientists, doctors, and ethicists for decades, and in Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good, Cathy Gere presents the gripping story of how we have addressed them over time. Today, we are horrified at the idea that a medical experiment could be performed on...

Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgment of "Principles of Political Economy," Mill's first major work in moral and political philosophy, provides a challenging, sometimes surprising account of Mill's views on many important topics: socialism, population, the status of women, the cultural bases of economic productivity, the causes and possible cures of poverty, the nature of property rights, taxation, and the legitimate functions of government. Nathanson cuts through the dated and less relevant sections of this large work and includes significant material omitted in other editions,...

This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory. Environmental issues challenge contemporary ethical theorists to account for topics that traditional ethical theories do not address to any significant extent. This book articulates and evaluates consequentialist responses to that challenge. Contributors provide a thorough and well-rounded analysis of the benefits and limitations of the consequentialist perspective in addressing environmental issues. In particular, the contributors use consequentialist theory to address central...

Schofield begins with a lucid account of Bentham's insights in the fields of logic and language,...