Voorbeelden van utilitarianism

• First, egalitarians might measure inequality in ways that permit losses to the badly off that would be ruled out by utilitarianism and prioritarianism.

• But as an answer to the question of how utilitarianism is insensitive to distribution, although this answer is not false, it is useless.

• But if utilitarianism suffers from presupposition failure, it is more or less meaningless.

• Utilitarianism continues to vex its critics even in the absence of generally respected arguments in its favour.

• In effect, the policy of minimizing unmet needs might be taken to be a version of negative utilitarianism, which recommends minimizing pain and suffering.

• Utilitarianism and intuitionism qualify as methods of ethics, therefore, because one can understand either as a rational procedure that produces this sort of cognition.

• Parfit (1991) says that the priority view departs from utilitarianism in exactly one way: it claims that benefiting the worse off matters more.

• Secondly, if we accept some additional axioms, then the only value function that satisfies them is critical-level utilitarianism.