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  • Consequentialism, Distribution and Desert

  • Erik Carlson
  • Journal:
    Utilitas / Volume 9 / Issue 3 / November 1997
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 January 2009, pp. 307-318

  • This paper criticizes the ‘justice-adjusted’ consequentialist theory recently put forward by Fred Feldman. I argue that this theory violates two crucial requirements. Another theory, proposed by Peter Vallentyne, is similarly flawed. Feldman's basic ideas could, however, be developed into a more plausible theory. I suggest one possible way of doing this.

  • UTI volume 12 issue 1 Front matter

  • Journal:
    Utilitas / Volume 12 / Issue 1 / March 2000
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 January 2009, p. f1
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  • Henry Sidgwick's Practical Ethics

  • Sissela Bok
  • Journal:
    Utilitas / Volume 12 / Issue 3 / November 2000
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 January 2009, pp. 361-378

  • How practical can ethics be? To what extent is it possible to put ethics ‘to the use of life’, in the words of Samuel Johnson? In Practical Ethics, Henry Sidgwick offers the distillation of a lifetime of reflection on how to relate moral theory and practice. This book provides both a model and a cautionary example. Its lucid, urbane, and broad-gauged approach to practical moral issues is exemplary; but its very lucidity also exposes the moral risks in Sidgwick's attempt to isolate deliberation about these issues from fundamental moral premises, including the interlocking intuitionist, utilitarian, and paternalist premises buttressing his conclusions about legitimate practices of violence and deceit.

  • Equality, Priority, and Time

  • Klemens Kappel
  • Journal:
    Utilitas / Volume 9 / Issue 2 / July 1997
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    26 January 2009, pp. 203-225

  • The lifetime equality view (the view that it is good if people's lives on the whole are equally worth living) has recently been met with the objection that it does not rule out simultaneous inequality: two persons may lead equally good lives on the whole and yet there may at any time be great differences in their level of well-being. And simultaneous inequality, it is held, ought to be a concern of egalitarians. The paper discusses this and related objections to the lifetime equality view. It is argued that rather than leading to a revision of the lifetime equality view, these objections, if taken seriously, should make us account for our egalitarian concerns in terms of the priority view rather than the equality view. The priority view claims that there is a greater moral value to benefiting the worse off. Several versions of the priority view are also distinguished.

  • A Response to Splawn

  • Elizabeth Ashford
  • Journal:
    Utilitas / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / November 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 January 2009, pp. 334-341

  • I argue that Sider's view does succeed in accommodating the kind of maximization he is after, according to which the agent is required to maximize overall welfare with the single exception of his own welfare. I then argue that Splawn's argument highlights some interesting and important ways in which Sider's view fail to capture basic common-sense intuitions concerning the self-other asymmetry, but offer a different diagnosis of the source of the problem.

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