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Title The Utilitarian response : the contemporary viability of utilitarian political philosophy / edited by Lincoln Allison
Published London ; Newbury Park : Sage Publications, 1990

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Description 218 pages ; 23 cm
Series SAGE modern politics series ; v.24
Sage modern politics series ; v. 24
Contents Utilitarianism : what is it and why should it respond? / Lincoln Allison -- The utilitarian ethics of punishment and torture / Lincoln Allison -- Justice and utility in health care / John Day -- A stage in moral development? / Paul Lucardie -- Choice and utility / Samuel Brittan -- Individual choice and the retreat from utilitarianism / Andrew Reeve -- Utilitarianism, conservatism and social policy / John R. Gibbins -- Government house utilitarianism / Robert E. Goodin -- Utilitarian ethics and democratic government / Jonathan Riley -- Can utilitarianism justify democracy? : Benthamism as 'positive theory' / Ian Budge
Notes Papers first presented at a component workshop of the Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research held in Rimini, Italy, April 1988 and sponsored by the University of Bologna
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ethics -- Congresses.
Political science -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Utilitarianism -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Allison, Lincoln.
European Consortium for Political Research. Joint Sessions of Workshops (1988 : Rimini, Italy)
Università di Bologna.
LC no. 89063773
ISBN 0803982739