Titlebook: Imperceptible Harms and Benefits; Michael J. Almeida Book 2000 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000 Consequentialism.Utilitarian

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Perceiving Imperceptible Harms (with other Thoughts on Transitivity, Cumulative Effects, and Conseqeries of changes, none of which alters the value of the state of affairs in any way, but such that the final state of affairs that results from the series of changes is worse than the initial state of affairs.. I shall call the claim that there can be such cases the “ex nihilo” claim, since in a sen

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The Least Sub-Noticeable Difference,y we have developed in this kind of settings is inadequate. Our actions have a very different import in a modern society, and this import must be taken into moral account. We sometimes cause serious harm, not because of what individually we do, but because of what we do together with other people. A

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Utilitarianism and Interpersonally Comparable Cardinal Utility: Some Implications of just Perceivabou probably cannot discern a difference between 1.99 and 2 spoons. While Borda (1781) had a discussion of a roughly similar concept, Edgeworth (1881) gave a more elaborate discussion of this just perceivable increment of enjoyment. (Thus, when I presented a seminar on this issue in 1974 at Nuffield

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Money Pump with Foresight,iately preceding one, and he also strictly prefers the first object in the sequence to the one that comes last. Letting “. <. ” stand for “. is strictly preferred to .”, we have a cyclical preference if the following is the case:

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Utility Pumps and the Value of Partial Compliance, be no act utilitarian reason to recommend them. Of course, while individual compliance with these familiar moral prescriptions lacks empirical justification, act utilitarians acknowledge that they must forego the considerable benefits forthcoming from . compliance with (at least parts of) commonsense morality.

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1387-6678 ible harms and benefits. It is perhaps better to characterize the problem as a collection of puzzles or paradoxes, since those who deny the existence (or possibility) of imperceptible decrements (or increments) face problems no less perplexing than those who affinn their existence. The puzzles and p

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