Utilitarianism is the most common approach to business ethics as well because of the way it accounts for costs and benefits. The theory asserts that there are two types of utilitarian ethics ...

In this selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels sketches what he thinks would be a satisfactory ethical theory. Although his theory has much in common with utilitarianism, it ...

Situation ethics rejects 'prefabricated decisions ... forms a coalition with the utilitarian principle of the 'greatest good of the greatest number.' The rightness depends on many factors The ...

Is an economic approach founded on utilitarianism ethically defensible ... radically with the existing Western traditions of ethical theory. Existing traditions are taken to be anthropocentric ...

As Jeremy Bentham explains in The Principles of Morals and Legislation ... what we shall do” (Bentham, 1823). In ...