Should We Wish Well to All?
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Hare, Caspar
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Some moral theories (for example, standard, “ex post” forms of egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and constraint-based deontology) tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay argues that such theories are mistaken. Go ahead and do what is expectedly best for everybody. The argument is based on the thought that when interacting with an individual it is fine for you to act in the expected interests of the individual and that many interactions with individuals may compose an interaction with a group. Keywords: agglomeration; beneficence; consequentialism; constraints; deontology; egalitarianism; incommensurability; prioritarianism
Date issued
2016-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and PhilosophyJournal
Philosophical Review
Publisher
Duke University Press
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Hare, Caspar. “Should We Wish Well to All?” Philosophical Review 125, 4 (October 2016): 451–472 © 2016 Cornell University
Version: Original manuscript
ISSN
0031-8108
1558-1470