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On utilitarianism: A definition with concentric circles
[L'utilitarisme: les cercles concentriques d'une définition]

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  • Claude Gamel

    (LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Normative economics is directly concerned by utilitarianism, as ethics with scientific claim. The will to define a real "moral arithmetic" does not allow to clear up a persistent confusion about the definition of utilitarianism. Here it will be defended the fact that this confusion is a supplementary source of debates; it results from the existence of analytical frameworks, which are more or less broad and fitted together: three more and more restricted definitions of utilitarianism seem to coexist but the agreement on the first one does not imply the same agreement on the other ones.

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  • Claude Gamel, 1999. "On utilitarianism: A definition with concentric circles [L'utilitarisme: les cercles concentriques d'une définition]," Post-Print halshs-02520678, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-02520678
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