What Is Utilitarianism? Pleasure, Pain, and the Greatest Good
A thorough guide to utilitarianism: Bentham's hedonic calculus, Mill's higher pleasures, act vs rule utilitarianism, Singer's preference...
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A thorough guide to utilitarianism: Bentham's hedonic calculus, Mill's higher pleasures, act vs rule utilitarianism, Singer's preference...
Conservatism is a political tradition rooted in skepticism of radical change, reverence for inherited institutions, and the belief that accumulated...
Anarchism is the political philosophy that hierarchical authority — the state, capitalism, organized religion — is coercive and unnecessary, and...
Power in sociology and philosophy: Weber's authority types, Lukes' three faces, Foucault's relational power, soft power, and the neurological power...
What is justice? From Rawls' veil of ignorance to Nozick, Sen, and the psychology of fairness — a comprehensive guide to how philosophy and science...
Political philosophy asks what justifies state power, what justice requires, and how free societies should be organized. From Plato and Hobbes to Rawls, Nozick, and Habermas, here is a complete guide to the field.
Human rights are entitlements all people possess simply by being human - rights no government can legitimately deny.
A thorough guide to utilitarianism: Bentham's hedonic calculus, Mill's higher pleasures, act vs rule utilitarianism, Singer's preference utilitarianism, effective altruism, and objections from Rawls, Williams, and Nozick.
Political philosophy asks what justifies state power, what justice requires, and how free societies should be organized.
A thorough guide to just war theory: from Cicero and Augustine through Aquinas and Grotius to Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars, humanitarian...