The Utilitarian Deception

BY SEAN WALSH There are decent utilitarian grounds for junking utilitarian thinking. Photo: Jeremy Bentham, founder of the utilitarian crime family, in a box, where he belongs. What the philosophers call utilitarianism is actually a family of moral theories with all the feuds, competitiveness and fickle alliances that families tend to have. There may be nuances involved, but there is an intellectual genealogy which takes you from … Continue reading The Utilitarian Deception