Utilitarian and utilitarianism refer primarily to the major quality/effect of something being?
Utilitarian cake-cutting Utilitarian cake-cutting Utilitarian cake-cutting is a rule for dividing a heterogeneous resource, such as a cake or a land-estate, among several partners with different cardinal utility functions. The rule says that the cake should be divided in a way which maximizes the sum of the utilities of the partners. It is called "utilitarian" because it is inspired by utilitarianism. An alternative term is maxsum cake-cutting. Utilitarian cake-cutting is often not "fair"; hence, utilitarianism is in conflict with fair cake-cutting. Consider a cake with two parts: chocolate and vanilla, and two partners: Alice and George, with the following valuations: The utilitarian
Utilitarianism it leads to the wrong action when assessed according to act utilitarian standards. Adams concludes that "right action, by act-utilitarian standards, and right motivation, by motive-utilitarian standards, are incompatible in some cases." The necessity of this conclusion is rejected by Fred Feldman who argues that "the conflict in question results from an inadequate formulation of the utilitarian doctrines; motives play no essential role in it…(and that)… Precisely the same sort of conflict arises even when MU is left out of consideration and AU is applied by itself." Instead, Feldman proposes a variant of act utilitarianism that results in there being