Mill is therefore not an "act utilitarian" who holds that the principle of utility is used to judge the rightness or wrongness of each and every act.
One is to judge the rightness or morality of any action by the degree of good or harm that results from it, known as utilitarianism; the other is to judge the rightness or morality of any action by how much it conforms with the generally (often tacitly) accepted ethical principles.
There is every reason to reject theories that are premised on exaggerated claims about the epistemic abilities of the people or institutions that will end up having to judge the rightness or wrongness of an action.
In fact, in his commitment to the importance of human reason (including the sense in which reason can judge the rightness of at least a number of Biblical commands and prohibitions), Saadya's theological ideas may be said to reflect Islamic Kalâm sensibilities (in particular, the teachings of the Mu'tâzilites).
The standard is vague on how benefits and harms are to be aggregated in judging the rightness of actions and practices, and one might well raise questions as to how benefits and harms are ultimately to be distributed across persons, and whether a purely consequentialist distribution really provides morally acceptable results.
Yet a nakedly logical way to judge the value of one kind of organism over another — the rightness of a plant's death versus an animal's — seems, to me, out of reach.
So, according to traditional epistemologists, to judge whether a person's belief that p counts as knowledge that p, it is sufficient to find out if p is connected in the right way to other propositions, the rightness of the connection to be determined by logic (Kitcher, 1983).
Enough Jews and Arabs have died trying to prove the rightness of their cause.
At last, detailed simulation is done to testify the rightness of proposed method.
Furthermore, two numerical simulation examples are provided to verify the rightness of the proposed anti-synchronization criteria.
