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 concept of utilitarianism refers to the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful for the benefit of a majority. The doctrine is that an action is right in so far as it promotes happiness ...

In a philosophy seminar many years ago I called utilitarian ethics ‘the moral view from nowhere’. Like so many smart-ass undergrads I was riffing from a work that I knew my philosophy peers would have ...