The report identified social justice and economic-rationalist utilitarianism as the major competing educational philosophies or ideologies. |
We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism. |
Historically, utilitarianism has been the best-known form of consequentialism. |
The primary flaw in libertarianism is that it is rooted in an ethic of utilitarianism rather than virtue ethics. |
But the particular kind of consequentialism in utilitarianism is, I think, unattractive. |
While utilitarianism may have unequal effects on people, it can nonetheless claim to be motivated by a concern for treating people as equals. |