Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism

acceptance acceptance-utility Act-Utilitarianism action actually alternative appeal argue argument from fairness behaviour causal ceteris paribus condition ciple circumstances claim clause co-operation coherence argument consequences of everyone's consider context criterion criticism damage determine disutility dition escape clause Ethics example extensionally equivalent fact facto rules fail favourable votes form of utilitarian formulation given act given principle H. L. A. Hart Harrison Harrod Ideal Rule-Utilitarianism ideal rules judgements derived justified kinds of acts lawn linearity maximizing utility merely method of rebuttals minimizing-conditions moral principle negative negative utilitarian non-comparative non-equivalence non-linearity notion obligations one's particular act performed practice primitive rule-utilitarianism primitive rules producing food promises reason relevantly respect result rightness or wrongness set of rules similar simple utilitarianism simple utility Singer sub-class substantive suggest suppose teleological theory things considered threshold effects tion undesirable consequences utilitarian generaliza utilitarian grounds utilitarian principle utilitarian relevance