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Negative utilitarianism: History & Works

Negative utilitarianism (NU) is a form of negative consequentialism that can be described as the view that people should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that they should minimize suffering and then, secondarily, maximize the total amount of happiness. It can be regarded as a version of utilitarianism that gives greater priority to…

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Negative utilitarianism topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Works as prominent areas in the source structure around Negative utilitarianism.

Related topics
31
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
36
Extracted relationships
106
Concept neighborhoods
15
Bridge connections
36

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 14 topics
History · 6 topics
Versions · 5 topics
Other works · 3 topics
The benevolent world-exploder · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

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Overview

History

Versions

The benevolent world-exploder

Other works

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Negative utilitarianism connects Entity context

The extracted context around Negative utilitarianism shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Negative utilitarianism → Ancient Greek, Buddhism, Cyrene, Discussions, Edmund Gurney, Hegesias, In, Its Enemies, Jainism, Karl Popper's, NU, Popper, Smart, The, The Open Society, This, While Another extracted example is Negative utilitarianism → David Pearce, Even, Instead, No, NU, One, Pearce, Several, Should NUs, The Negative Utilitarianism FAQ's, Thus. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Negative utilitarianism

Top relations

related to history · 17
Negative utilitarianism → Ancient Greek, Buddhism, Cyrene, Discussions, Edmund Gurney, Hegesias, In, Its Enemies, Jainism, Karl Popper's, NU, Popper, Smart, The, The Open Society, This, While
related to Attempting world destruction would be counterproductive · 11
Negative utilitarianism → David Pearce, Even, Instead, No, NU, One, Pearce, Several, Should NUs, The Negative Utilitarianism FAQ's, Thus
related to Other works · 11
Negative utilitarianism → Bruno Contestabile, Christopher Belshaw, David Pearce, Ingmar Persson, Joseph Mendola, Magnus Vinding, Negative Utilitarian, Other, Thaddeus Metz, Toby Ord, Why I'm Not
related to The weight of evil (disutility) · 11
Negative utilitarianism → According, Consent-based, In, It, Krister Bykvist, Lexical, Philosophers Gustaf Arrhenius, Strong, That, The, They
related to Frustrated preferences · 10
Negative utilitarianism → Arrhenius, But, Bykvist, Bykvist's, First, Negative, Second, That, The, The Negative Utilitarianism FAQ
related to Other distinctions among versions of negative utilitarianism · 9
Negative utilitarianism → According, Basic Philosophy, From, In, In Bunge's, Mario Bunge, Thomas Metzinger, Tranquilist, Treatise
related to External links · 6
Negative utilitarianism → Hedonistic ImperativeOrganisation, Intense Suffering, Negative Utilitarianism FAQEssays, OPIS, Prevention, Reducing SufferingFoundational Research InstituteThe
related to Versions · 6
Negative utilitarianism → For, Like, Negative, Negative Average Preference Utilitarianism, This, Versions
related to Combining negative utilitarianism with rights · 5
Negative utilitarianism → Clark Wolf's, He, Negative, Popper's, Rawls
related to Cooperation between different value systems · 5
Negative utilitarianism → In, One, Since, The, There

Important terminology

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Important terminology

utilitarianism negative would suffering well-being positive reducing reply argument utility world preferences disutility value life also many frustrated versions one

Negative utilitarianism relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 106 structured relationships around Negative utilitarianism. Examples in this analysis include Negative utilitarianism → is a → specification of lexical threshold negative utilitarianism and Jainism → instance of → The ideas in negative utilitarianism have similarities with ancient traditions. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Negative utilitarianismis aspecification of lexical threshold negative utilitarianism0.90text
Jainisminstance ofThe ideas in negative utilitarianism have similarities with ancient traditions0.80text
Buddhisminstance ofThe ideas in negative utilitarianism have similarities with ancient traditions0.80text
sufferinginstance ofNegative hedonistic utilitarianism thinks of utility in terms of hedonic mental states0.80text
unpleasantnessinstance ofNegative hedonistic utilitarianism thinks of utility in terms of hedonic mental states0.80text
Negative utilitarianismrelated to Attempting world destruction would be counterproductiveSeveral0.60section
Negative utilitarianismrelated to Attempting world destruction would be counterproductiveOne0.60section
Negative utilitarianismrelated to Attempting world destruction would be counterproductiveDavid Pearce0.60section
Negative utilitarianismrelated to Attempting world destruction would be counterproductiveEven0.60section
Negative utilitarianismrelated to Attempting world destruction would be counterproductiveThus0.60section
Negative utilitarianismrelated to Attempting world destruction would be counterproductiveInstead0.60section
Negative utilitarianismrelated to Attempting world destruction would be counterproductivePearce0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Negative utilitarianism bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Utilitarianism, Well-being and Would. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Negative utilitarianism
    • Utilitarianism
    • Well-being
    • Would
    • Positive
    • Suffering
    • Utilitarian
    • Utility
    • Disutility
    • Argument
    • Benevolent
    • Preference
    • Also
  • negative utilitarianism
    • Utilitarianism
    • Well-being
    • Would
    • Positive
    • Suffering
    • Utilitarian
    • Utility
    • Disutility
    • Versions
    • Also
    • Argument
    • Benevolent
  • negative consequentialism
    • Utilitarianism
    • Well-being
    • Would
    • Positive
    • Suffering
    • Utilitarian
    • Utility
    • Disutility
    • Argument
    • Benevolent
    • Preference
    • Also
  • suffering
    • Future
    • Utilitarianism
    • Reducing
    • Value
    • Would
    • Says
    • Utility
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    • Human
    • Pearce
    • Systems
  • classical utilitarianism
    • Well-being
    • Would
    • Utility
    • Versions
    • Also
    • Argument
    • Positive
    • Benevolent
    • Disutility
    • Preference
    • Frustrated
    • World-exploder
  • preference utilitarianism
    • Preferences
    • Well-being
    • Would
    • Future
    • Says
    • Utility
    • Versions
    • Also
    • Argument
    • Positive
    • Benevolent
    • Disutility
  • frustrated preferences
    • Preferences
    • Preference
    • Could
    • World
    • Even
    • Says
    • One
    • Reply
    • Negative
    • Utilitarianism
    • Would
    • Systems
  • the benevolent world-exploder
    • World-exploder
    • Would
    • Reply
    • World
    • Term
    • Could
    • Even
    • Reducing
    • Utilitarian
    • Life
    • Negative
    • Utilitarianism

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Negative utilitarianism, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Negative utilitarianism with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Negative utilitarianismOverview · splits 22 ⟂ 15
Negative utilitarianismHistory · splits 30 ⟂ 7
Negative utilitarianismVersions · splits 31 ⟂ 6
Negative utilitarianismThe benevolent world-exploder · splits 33 ⟂ 4
Negative utilitarianismOther works · splits 33 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Negative utilitarianism

Nodes37
Edges36
Triples106
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.054054
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Negative utilitarianism to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Works, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Negative utilitarianism · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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