Understanding Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a tradition of ethical philosophy that's associated with Jeremy Bentham (1747-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), two British philosophers ...

Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) is the journal of the Society for Business Ethics and the leading scholarly journal in its field. It publishes scholarly articles from a variety of disciplinary ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 142, No. 1 (April 2017), pp. 25-35 (11 pages) The present paper builds on the Rawlsian critique of utilitarianism in order to identify the moral implications of Niklas ...

Business ethics are often discussed today, especially in light of corporate scandals. Often, that discussion focuses on professional conduct or illegal practices. Ethics touch many elements of ...

As we learn to couple CSR, triple bottom line and stakeholder capitalism approaches with utilitarianism, deonotological and virtue ethics philosophies, we will have a more robust toolkit to help ...

Ethics have always been important in business, but for a long time they were implicit or not formalised. Since the 1970s, business ethics have become more institutionalised through regulation and ...

The principle of utilitarianism invites us to consider the immediate and the less immediate consequences of our actions. Given its insistence on summing the benefits and harms of all people, ...

In one context, it seems perfectly justifiable to save many lives by sacrificing one; in another, that exchange feels unconscionable, even though the equation has not changed. Perhaps our moral ...