Greg Detre
Wednesday, 02 May, 2001
South Schools, Dr R Crisp
welfarism, e.g. Raz�s humanistic principle (inexplicably excludes non-human animals)
�consequentialism�, probably invented by Broad, or maybe Anscombe
disadvantages of consequentialism
no clear way to invigilate which consequences count, since actions can be described in different ways
Anscombe, 1958, �Modern moral philosophy� in �Philosophy�: wrongly calls herself an absolutist, because she thinks that hanging an innocent person is always wrong � but consequentialists can also be seen as absolutists: any non-utility-maximising action is always wrong
Parfit first talked of agent-neutral (common aims) and agent-relative. Then Nagel.
Hare � smuggling in intuitions