Utilitarian Traits and the Janus-Headed Model: Origins, Meaning, and Interpretation

Two distinct and perhaps mutually exclusive understandings of utilitarianism have emerged in the ethics literature. Utilitarianism is typically regarded as an approach to determine ethicality by focusing on whether or not actions produce the greater good, but has also been conceptualized as a set of...

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VerfasserInnen: Mudrack, Peter E. (Verfasst von) ; Mason, E. Sharon (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 2019, Band: 156, Heft: 1, Seiten: 227-240
weitere Schlagwörter:B Janus-Headed Model
B Utilitarian traits
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