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Utilitarianism
The right act brings the greatest good to the most.
The right act brings the greatest good to the most. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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- The Categorical Imperative
- The Trolley Problem
- Sympatheia
- The Veil of Ignorance
- The Panopticon
- Plato's Allegory of the Cave
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