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When we recite the Creed each Sunday and say, “I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” most of us don’t imagine that it has much to do with our everyday lives. Stop! Every aspect of ...

In her column on July 18, Tina Dupuy reveals her belief in the social philosophy called utilitarianism (consequentialism). She wrote “laws for the greater good, while inconveniencing a couple of ...

The last time my wife and I were in London together, we had dinner at the Garrick Club with an eminent political philosopher and his wife. We’d walked out on some horrible West End play after the ...

I have a dim recollection of Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy from a course in college. Utilitarianism appealed to me at a time when I was more certain of myself intellectually and more ...

Here is the prompt for the following essay: 1. Does the story, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” successfully defeat utilitarianism? In answering this, you should discuss (a) whether the ...

This post isn’t about the propriety of the death penalty so much as it is about the dangers and profound crassness of utilitarian philosophy. Peter Singer has stated that if he was convinced of a ...