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Uitility as intermediate principle?

Posted by luno in Utilitarianism, Mill, J. S., Moral Theory (Friday January 14, 2005 at 10:48 pm)
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But to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another. It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform […]