Rule utilitarianism
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Rule utilitarianism
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Rule utilitarianism is a form of utilitarianism that says an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good, or that "the rightness or wrongness of a particular action is a function of the correctness of the rule of which it is an instance". Philosophers Richard Brandt and Brad Hooker are major proponents of such an approach. For rule utilitarians, the correctness of a rule is determined by the amount of good it brings about when followed. In contrast, act utilitarians
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Ethical principle; incorporates deontology into greatest-happiness thinking
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_utilitarianism
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2024-02-19T18:23:30Z
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