Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one is saved and the many die? According to the standard utilitarian justification, the former is better because it has a greater sum total of well-being. This justification involves a controversial form of moral aggregation, because it is based on a comparison between aggregates of different people’s well-being. Still, an alternative justification-the Argument for Best Outcomes-does not involve moral aggregation. I extend the Argument for Best Outcomes to show that any utilitarian evaluation can be justified without moral aggregation
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Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one i...
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Suppose we can save either a larger group of persons or a distinct, smaller group from some harm. Ma...
http://klinechair.missouri.edu/on-line%20papers/broome-ppr.docIn an earlier book, Weighing Goods , J...
Critical-Range Utilitarianism is a variant of Total Utilitarianism which can avoid both the Repugnan...
Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people’s lives to save many others? Research on moral ...
This paper presents multiple reasons for why contractualists should adopt a weighted lottery in sav...
Utilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in b...
Questioning the ethical reasoning behind ways of attributing value to lives impacts philosophical di...
Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people’s lives to save many others? Research on moral ...
Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people’s lives to save many others? Research on moral ...
Our moral motivations might include a drive towards maximizing overall welfare, consistent with an e...
Faced with the choice between saving one person and saving two others, what should we do? It seems i...
Can all goods or bads be broken down into smaller and smaller pieces? Can all goods or bads be added...
Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one i...
Is there any number of people you should save from paralysis rather than saving one person from deat...
Suppose we can save either a larger group of persons or a distinct, smaller group from some harm. Ma...
http://klinechair.missouri.edu/on-line%20papers/broome-ppr.docIn an earlier book, Weighing Goods , J...
Critical-Range Utilitarianism is a variant of Total Utilitarianism which can avoid both the Repugnan...
Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people’s lives to save many others? Research on moral ...
This paper presents multiple reasons for why contractualists should adopt a weighted lottery in sav...
Utilitarians sometimes suggest that their moral theory has an advantage over competing theories in b...
Questioning the ethical reasoning behind ways of attributing value to lives impacts philosophical di...
Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people’s lives to save many others? Research on moral ...
Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people’s lives to save many others? Research on moral ...
Our moral motivations might include a drive towards maximizing overall welfare, consistent with an e...
Faced with the choice between saving one person and saving two others, what should we do? It seems i...
Can all goods or bads be broken down into smaller and smaller pieces? Can all goods or bads be added...