Utilitarianism and Evil
(2018)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2018). Utilitarianism and Evil. In D. Hedley, C. Meister, & C. Taliaferro (Eds.), The history of evil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : 1700-1900 CE (118-135). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351138406-9
“Utilitarianism” is the name of a family of ethical theories that take as the yardstick of moral appraisal the propensity of acts to increase or decrease human well-being (or, more generally, the well-being of all sentient creatures). Emerging to pro... Read More about Utilitarianism and Evil.