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A utilitarian would approach the ethics of eating animals by determining what the effects of eating animals would be. The best conclusion would be the one that maximises utility; the best effects for every s...

Aquinas argued that the complexity of the world and the way that it functions is specific that it must have been made by a creator. In other words, there is such low likelihood that the world would be constr...

Both act and rule utilitarianism are founded on the principle that to do good is to maximise the greatest utility. However, there are different ways of putting this principle into practice in normal life. Co...

In “Utilitarianism” Mill argued that happiness was the sole basis of morality. Through observation of other men and women he found that all people have a natural tendency to seek happiness and therefore conc...

Utilitarianism is the doctrine/theory which states that an action is right, as it promotes the greatest amount of pleasure and the least amount of pain. Utilitarianism is a type of consequentialism, which po...