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James P. Griffin
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
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Vol 1 No 1 (1992), Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/t.1.1.507
Submitted: 28-11-2012
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<<Against System in Ethics>> is an attempt to advance a new qualified approachto consequentialism.Human flourishing and personal committments play an important role here, so that considerations of general benevolence can never be moral<<trumps».The author strengthens the link between the prudential and the moral, the<<can>> and the <<must>>, in order not to make Ethics too demanding. General benevolence,and general well-being, are only at the background in Moral Theory, as the «animating aim>>, but never as a first principie, as clasic utilitarianism required, never within a System in Ethics.
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