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A paradox for weak deontology

Utilitas 21 (4):464-477 (2009)

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  1. The Sequence Argument Against the Procreation Asymmetry.Matthew Adelstein - 2024 - Utilitas 36 (4):338-351.
    The procreation asymmetry is a widely held view in ethics, claiming that one should make existing people happy but has no reason to make happy people. Here, I shall present a new objection demonstrating from modest premises that one has a reason to take a sequence of actions that simply creates a happy person; yet this judgment in combination with plausible principles about sequences of actions entails that one has some reason to simply create a happy person. Additionally, I will (...)
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  • Resolving Mill’s Absolutism Problem.Jonathan Riley - forthcoming - Canadian Journal of Philosophy:1-15.
    The absolutist status Mill assigns to his liberty principle (LP) is incompatible with standard utilitarian maximizing reasoning. But LP is compatible with his non-standard utilitarianism, whose extraordinary structure is clarified using a “consequentializing” lens. This involves enlarging outcomes to include not only the downstream consequences of self-regarding actions but also the actions themselves and the agent’s liberty of choosing them using his own agent-relative evaluation criteria. Self-regarding liberty is protected by indefeasible moral right and, according to the higher pleasures doctrine, (...)
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