The Burdens of Morality: Why Act‐Consequentialism Demands Too Little

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 5 (1):82-85 (2016)
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Abstract

A classic objection to act-consequentialism is that it is overdemanding: it requires agents to bear too many costs for the sake of promoting the impersonal good. I develop the complementary objection that act-consequentialism is underdemanding: it fails to acknowledge that agents have moral reasons to bear certain costs themselves, even when it would be impersonally better for others to bear these costs.

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Tom Dougherty
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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