Utilitarianism As a Way of Life - Re-Envisioning Planetary Happiness

"Bart Schultz argues that utilitarian philosophy must be decolonized and reimagined for the current moment: a time of new and looming existential threats, in a world desperate for social change. Where dominant ethical and political approaches have failed to adequately deal with the enormous challenges we face, utilitarianism - as a set of lived practices, not simply a theoretical construction - may hold out some hope of seriously addressing them. Drawing on alternatives to the well-known Eurocentric story of utilitarianism (and an extensive review and critique of that story) and incorporating the works of Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Derek Parfit, Martha Nussbaum, and other major philosophers, Schultz crafts a groundbreaking new framework of utilitarianism born of struggle and resistance." --

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Decolonizing Utilitarianism
1 Utilitarianism Now and Then
2 Utilitarian Virtue?
3 The Worst of the Best
4 Different Places, Different Voices, Different Virtues

Appendix
Notes
Index

About the author

Bart Schultz is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Bart Schultz, Bart (University of Chicago) Schultz, Schultz Bart
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781509552276
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5227-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800