utilitarianism

Converse of subject

• tell: An agent can be told by utilitarianism to do something terrible in order to avoid something even worse, as Jim and George are.

Converse of object

• make: This shift of emphasis was originally the work of economists looking for a way of making utilitarianism operational.
• advocate: Spencer as much as Mill, then, advocates indirect utilitarianism by featuring robust moral rights.
• consider: Utilitarians will claim that an ideal public should at least consider utilitarianism a plausible doctrine.
• call: Beginning particularly with John Stuart Mill, bourgeois science differentiated itself into an Ethics called Utilitarianism and a science called Economics.

Adjective modifier

• liberal: Whether Spencer actually envisioned his liberal utilitarianism this way is unclear.
• Benthamite: Benthamite utilitarianism does involve a commitment to individual welfare, but not to personal freedom.
• classical: Such reasoning supports, I then argue, conclusions about value that support an account of the concept broadly consistent with classical utilitarianism.
• indirect: Spencer as much as Mill, then, advocates indirect utilitarianism by featuring robust moral rights.
• narrow: Those who perceived a narrow utilitarianism as dominant took the opposite view.

Noun used with modifier

• act: Why bother with substitute sources of stand-in obligation when, thanks to having become moral saints, act utilitarianism will fortunately always do?
• rule: Act and rule utilitarianism Bentham tended to deal with the consequences of acts.
• preference: Apparently it even has a name: preference utilitarianism.