PHIL 2750 Lecture 24: Lecture 24
1 Aug 2018
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Rule uilitarianism has no diiculty coping with the three ani-uilitarian arguments. Once having appealed to the principle of uility to establish the rules, we do not have to invoke the principle again to determine the rightness of paricular acions. Individual acions are jusiied simply by appeal to the already-established rules. Rule uilitarianism cannot be convicted of violaing our moral common sense, or of conlicing with ordinary ideas of jusice, personal rights, etc. In shiting emphasis from the jusiicaion of acts to the jusiicaion of rules, the theory has been brought into line with our intuiive judgments to a remarkable degree. Our moral common sense is not necessarily reliable. On this way of thinking, act uilitarianism is a perfectly defensible doctrine and does not need to be modiied. What is correct and what is incorrect in uilitarianism: If we consult what smart calls our common moral consciousness , it seems that there are many other consideraions that are morally important.
