Utilitarianism, Conscience and Animals

Critical Analysis of Moral Utilitarianism in the View of John Stuart Mill From the Perspective of Allameh Ja’fari

Moral utilitarianism is one of the issues underlying utilitarianism among Western thinkers. At the forefront of this debate is John Stuart Mill, who found out the utilitarianism of morality after designing the classical liberalism in the realm of morality based on the philosophical basis of utilitarianism. To him, utilitarianism in life brings about most happiness for a person. The goal and pur...

POLITICAL ANIMALS: A Study of the Emerging Animal Rights Movement in the United States

BETWEEN THE SPECIES 124 understandings of the term. First, it is a rejection of utilitarianism as a pragmatic, calculating and consequentialist way of operating an organization or approaching questions about treating humans and animals. Animalines' remark, "We are dismayed by the passivity and utilitarian posture of the leading national organizations" depicts the meaning of this use of the term...

Erratum: Caroline Good; et al.; A Cultural Conscience for Conservation. Animals 2017, 7, 52

Ethical Theory of Utilitarianism and Human Rights Development

Background: Utilitarianism is a school whose founders have justified it by emphasizing consequentialism as a public interest. The school of utilitarianism is a moral and naturalistic school that justifies principles such as justice and individual and collective freedoms. For utilitarian, one cannot rely solely on individual interests and neglect the collective interest or group interest. Human ...

Dimensions of the Human Being and of Divine Action

Humans are three-dimensional, body-soul-spirit entities, but nevertheless unitary, indivisible persons. Animal behavior includes deterministic and random constituents. It may be modeled in terms of information systems, containing regulatory loops. Goal settings for these may be fixed, as in “lower” animals, or governed by internal adaptive supervisory systems freely selecting from alternative r...