What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 13, 2024
The intellectual most associated with classical utilitarianism (also known as consequentialism) is the 18th-century British philosopher and legal scholar Jeremy Bentham. Law professor John Eason notes that present-day social justice movements often call for renouncing past namings for slave owners, white supremacists, or anti-Semites.
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