Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction De Lazari-Radek Katarzyna Assistant Professor University of Lodz Institute of Philosophy
Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction De Lazari-Radek Katarzyna Assistant Professor University of Lodz Institute of Philosophy Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical…
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Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction De Lazari-Radek Katarzyna Assistant Professor University of Lodz Institute of Philosophy
Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are seen as inviolable. It is also one of the most controversial.
Considering how utilitarians can respond to objections that are often regarded as devastating, they explore the utilitarian answer to the question of whether torture can ever be justified. Would it, for example, be right to torture a suspected terrorist in order to prevent an attack that could kill and injure a large number of innocent people?In this Very Short Introduction Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer provide an authoritative account of the nature of utilitarianism, from its nineteenth-century origins, to its justification and its varieties. They also discuss what it is that utilitarians should