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British [[utilitarianism|utilitarian]] philosopher [[John Stuart Mill]] rejected the social contract

...the animal liberation movement.</ref>. Singer's thoroughgoing [[preference utilitarianism]] has sometimes been controversial, with his most severe critics accusing h ...rity. Singer analyzes animal liberation from the perspective of preference utilitarianism, suggesting that an [[equal consideration of interests]] is the only reason

* Mill, John Stuart. ''[[Utilitarianism]]''

...Stern Review and others depends upon an appreciation of what is meant by [[utilitarianism]] and by the idea of [[agent-specific ethics]]. The CZ article on the form ...a fully qualified philosopher, but in the mean time I'll try and improve [[utilitarianism]] --[[User:Tom Morris|Tom Morris]] 11:45, 28 August 2008 (CDT)

...when they clash with the requirements of utility.<ref>John Stuart Mill, ''Utilitarianism'' in ''On Liberty and Other Essays'' ed. [[John Gray]] (Oxford: OUP, 1991), ...d of others, so long as everyone’s good is taken impartially into account. Utilitarianism, in general, argues that the standard of justification for actions, rules o

1748 [[Jeremy Bentham]] (1748-1832) founder of [[utilitarianism]]. ...tuart Mill]] (1806-1873) English philosopher and politician. Advocate of [[utilitarianism]] and [[representative government]]. Proponent of the principle that societ

...rshall to ethics, specifically a [[Henry Sidgwick|Sidgwickian]] version of utilitarianism; ethics, in turn, led him to economics, because economics played an essenti

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* Mack, Mary Peter. "The Fabians and Utilitarianism," ''Journal of the History of Ideas,'' Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan., 1955), pp. 76-

...the rights of employees' trade unions. He endorsed the principles of the [[Utilitarianism|Utilitarians]] as advocated by his philosopher father, [[James Mill]] (1773

...re is no consensus concerning the operational meaning of that term. The [[Utilitarianism|utilitarian]] criterion of welfare maximisation proposed by [[Jeremy Bentha

...es/dldiogenes.htm], accessed 8 August 2006.</ref> Thinkers including the [[Utilitarianism|utilitarian]] [[Anarchism|anarchist]] [[William Godwin]] have argued that e

* -–, ''Utilitarianism and Horizontal Equity: The Case for Random Taxation'', Journal of Public Ec

...diminish individual happiness. His ethics thus would be compatible with [[utilitarianism]].

...ism]]'' <ref>[http://www.utilitarianism.com/jsmill.htm John Stuart Mill ''Utilitarianism'']</ref> as put forward by [[John Stuart Mill]], treats all of those infl

However, the [[utilitarianism|utilitarian]] philosopher, [[Jeremy Bentham]], took the contrary view abou

:* under ideologies: ''utilitarianism''

...neteenth century when Bentinck was being criticised for his penny-pinching Utilitarianism, and when Lord Curzon was emphasising earlier neglect of the monument, and

...ferences. Mill combined Kant's autonomy principle with the principles of [[utilitarianism]] to envisage a system under which government decisions would be determined

...l universalism]] of [[humanism]], which holds that a moral code (such as [[utilitarianism]]) should be applied consistently to all humans (cf. [[human rights]]), to