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Utilitarianism: Moral Standard And/Or "Decision Procedure"?

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The paper analyses a growing belief that utilitarianism as a theory of normative ethics offers a morality standard but not a method ("procedure") of making moral choices. According to the author's belief this idea emerged as a possible response to some of the critiques of utilitarianism, based on the notion of "demandingness". Firstly, I laid out the original argument proposed by Eugene Bales, about how the utilitarianism of procedure and indirect procedures based on rules can be "reconciled" by selling morality standard apart from the methods of making decisions. Next, Hurley's theory is outlined, according to which the separation of consequentialist (thus utilitarian) morality standard and decision procedures allows for the choice of procedure which does not request unreasonable demands from agents. The author analyses both ideas and lays out a possible meta-ethical and normative-ethical objections that can be constructed.
Keywords:
utilitarianism / standard of rightness / demandingness objection / decision procedure / consequentialism
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Filozofska istraživanja, 2018, 38, 2, 339-359
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  • Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb

DOI: 10.21464/fi38208

ISSN: 0351-4706

WoS: 000452494400009

Scopus: 2-s2.0-85058534451
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http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2583
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publisher = "Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb",
journal = "Filozofska istraživanja",
title = "Utilitarianism: Moral Standard And/Or "Decision Procedure"?",
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Cekić, N.. (2018). Utilitarianism: Moral Standard And/Or "Decision Procedure"?. in Filozofska istraživanja
Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb., 38(2), 339-359.
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38208
Cekić N. Utilitarianism: Moral Standard And/Or "Decision Procedure"?. in Filozofska istraživanja. 2018;38(2):339-359.
doi:10.21464/fi38208 .
Cekić, Nenad, "Utilitarianism: Moral Standard And/Or "Decision Procedure"?" in Filozofska istraživanja, 38, no. 2 (2018):339-359,
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38208 . .

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