FELDMAN'S JUSTICIZED ACT UTILITARIANISM
作者:
Ingmar Persson,
期刊:
Ratio
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 9,
issue 1
页码: 39-46
ISSN:0034-0006
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9329.1996.tb00091.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractInConfrontations with the ReaperFred Feldman puts forward puts forward an ethical theory called ‘justicized act utilitarianism’, JAU, according to which an act is morally right if and only if it maximizes universal justice level, i.e., brings it about that as many as possible get what they deserve. It is here argued that JAU is exposed to objections under the force of which it either loses its special emphasis on justice or its utilitarian character. It is also contended that, contrary to what Feldman suggests, JAU does not deal more plausibly with procreation and abortion than do more familiar forms of utilitarianism. Rather, it deals less plausibly at least with abortion, due to difficulties in the concept of des
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