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Living High and Letting Die, by Peter Unger (Popularity: )
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/unger/lhld/
A radical "liberationist" account of ethics that argues that our ordinary intuitions about the moral status of charitable giving (and ...
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The Golden Rule: Objections (Popularity: )
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/golden.rule.html
Summarises some objections to the Golden Rule.
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Consequentialism, Moralities of Concern, and Selfishness (Popularity: )
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted9.htm
Ted Honderich on only consequences making actions right (consequentialism), and the selfishness of agent-relative moralities (non-consequentialisms).
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Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and the Smart Aleck (Popularity: )
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted6.htm
Ted Honderich on how freedom and determinism are really related, with special attention to Richard Double's views.
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Equality and Egalitarianism - What It Really Comes To (Popularity: )
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/whatequalityis.htm
Ted Honderich's political philosophy on the true basis of the tradition of egalitarianism - The Principle of Equality.
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Equality and Egalitarianism - What It is Not, Fortunately (Popularity: )
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/whatequalityisnot.htm
Ted Honderich on the misunderstandings and deceptions surrounding egalitarianism.
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Violence Begets Violence (Popularity: )
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/1582
A theory of ethics based on enlightened self-interest.
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Consequentialism (Popularity: )
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/
The view that normative properties depend only on consequences; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
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Peace Love Kindness (Popularity: )
http://members.cox.net/rmatlin2/
Summaries of readings, personal experiences, book suggestions, and essays dedicated to ending human suffering.
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Utilitarian.org (Popularity: )
http://utilitarian.org/
An explanation of what utilitarianism is, its strong relationship to altruism, and a place to network to put the philosophy ...
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'Could Kant have been a Utilitarian?' (Popularity: )
http://deontology.com/
Provocative extract from the book Sorting Out Ethics by the late R. M. Hare. "Kant, I shall argue, could have ...
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Utilitarianism Glossary (Popularity: )
http://www.utilitarianism.com/glossary.htm
Entries on utilitarian philosophers and terms by the Penguin Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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'Utilitarianism' (Popularity: )
http://www.utilitarianism.com/utilitarianism.html
Encyclopedia Britannica article, by Henry R. West.
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'Primer on the Elements and Forms of Utilitarianism' (Popularity: )
http://web.missouri.edu/~philrnj/utilnote.html
Discussion about the varieties of utilitarianism, by R. N. Johnson. Utilitarianism is considered both as a theory of what is ...
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Utilitarianism Resources (Popularity: )
http://www.utilitarianism.com
Classic utilitiarian texts; defending utilitarianism from its critics; its relation with collectivism and hedonism - and the ultimate aim of ...
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'Utilitarianism' (Popularity: )
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/utilitarianism
Wikipedia entry.
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'The Singer Solution to World Poverty' (Popularity: )
http://www.petersingerlinks.com/solution.htm
Article arguing, from a utilitarian perspective, that citizens of affluent nations ought to give substantial amounts of their income to ...
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'Utilitarianism' (Popularity: )
http://www.utilitarianism.com/mill1.htm
Classic presentation of utilitarianism, by one of its most prominent defenders, John Stuart Mill.
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Classical Utilitariansm (Popularity: )
http://www.la.utexas.edu/cuws/
Contains selections from the writings of the classical utilitarians -principally Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick- with commentary ...
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utilitarism.net (Popularity: )
http://www.utilitarism.net
Swedish site for information on and discussion about utilitarianism.
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