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Richard Brandt and Utilitarianism

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Difference between Richard Brandt and Utilitarianism

Richard Brandt vs. Utilitarianism

Richard Booker Brandt (17 October 1910 – 10 September 1997) was an American philosopher working in the utilitarian tradition in moral philosophy. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility.

Similarities between Richard Brandt and Utilitarianism

Richard Brandt and Utilitarianism have 2 things in common (in Unionpedia): Morality, Rule utilitarianism.

Morality

Morality (from) is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper.

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Rule utilitarianism

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".

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Richard Brandt and Utilitarianism Comparison

Richard Brandt has 27 relations, while Utilitarianism has 138. As they have in common 2, the Jaccard index is 1.21% = 2 / (27 + 138).

References

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