this perspective is an ethical brief overview and examination of “wellness” policies in the modern workplace using practical examples and a general application of utilitarianism. many employers are implementing policies that provide incentives to employees who lead a “healthy” lifestyle. the authors address how these policies could adversely affect “non-healthy” employees. there are a wide vari...

knowing and applying the basic management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling, as well as their permutations and combinations, are vital to effective delivery of public health services. presently, graduate programs that prepare public health professionals neither emphasize teaching management theory, nor its application. this deficit puts those who become man...

This study fortifies the links between economic philosophy and theory and between theory and practice. Chapter I develops a modern definition of utilitarianism and determines that the current form of utilitarianism upholds characteristics of overriding objectives, equality, welfarism, consequentialism, aggregation, and maximization. By connecting the characteristics of utilitarianism developed ...

According to prioritarianism, the only thing that improves a state of affairs is improvements in well-being. In this, prioritarianism agrees with many traditional axiologies, including classical utilitarianism. Distinctive about prioritarianism, however, is its weighting. Simply put, all welfare benefits improve a state of affairs, but benefits to worse-off persons improve states of affairs mor...

1. Fundamental principles of personalism and utilitarianism One must state in the very beginning that medical ethics develops not so much under the influence of philosophical views, but under the influence of growing empirical sciences, which can create scientistic mentality, under the influence of legal decisions of various international or national medical organisations, under the influence o...

Torbjörn Tännsjö has written a clear and thought-provoking book on healthcare priority setting. He argues that different branches of ethical theory—utilitarianism, egalitarianism, prioritarianism—are in general agreement real-world priorities, it is human irrationality stands the way complying with their recommendations. While I am generally sympathetic to overall project line argumentation tak...

abstractmodernism and social class both are categories rose up from the west capitalism system and create somechallenges for the society. the aim of this discussion is explaining the conflict between tradition andmodernism based on one of the main conflict roots which is called class conflict. in the other words, in thisarticle authors tried to indicate that one the creator or accelerating fact...

Utilitarians are attracted to the idea that an act is morally right iff it leads to the best outcome. But critics have pointed out that in many cases we cannot determine which of our alternatives in fact would lead to the best outcome. So we can’t use the classic principle to determine what we should do. It’s not “practical”; it’s not “action-guiding”. Some take this to be a serious objection t...