Titlebook: Sidgwick and Contemporary Utilitarianism; Mariko Nakano-Okuno Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 201

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Testing the Significance of Apparent Truthsplete fulfilment of which would establish a significant proposition, apparently self-evident, in the highest degree of certainty attainable: and which must be approximately realised by the premises of our reasoning in any inquiry, if that reasoning is to lead us cogently to trustworthy conclusions’

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An Approach not Appealing to Moral Intuitionitarianism. The reason why Sidgwick believed we could rely on these three ‘intuitive’ principles, while dismissing perceptional and dogmatic intuitionism, was because these three principles use clear and definite terms, because their validity can be repeatedly confirmed by reflection, and because th

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Interpersonal Comparison and Maximizationudgment. That is, it seeks to determine what one ought to do by comparing feasible courses of action and by balancing people’s preferences regarding the states of affairs that each alternative course of action will bring about.. Theoretically, Hare’s special version of utilitarianism is designed to

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Reconciling the Dualism of Practical Reasonutilitarianism. According to Sidgwick, utilitarianism and egoism have equally solid theoretical bases; and yet completely different, and possibly conflicting, courses of action can be prescribed by these two different views.

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Overview: A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics – The Methods of Ethics. With a rather shocking conclusion that ‘none of us can match Sidgwick‘, Mariko Nakano-Okuno lucidly analyzes Henry Sidgwick‘s impacts on contemporary ethics.978-1-349-34049-1978-0-230-34294-1