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Full Idea
Utilitarianism is too demanding.
Gist of Idea
Utilitarianism is too demanding
Source
Thomas Nagel (The View from Nowhere [1986], X.5)
Book Ref
Nagel,Thomas: 'The View from Nowhere' [OUP 1989], p.205
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3924 | Nature makes private affections come first, because public concerns are spread too thinly [Hume] |
3770 | General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness [Mill] |
2884 | The morality of slaves is the morality of utility [Nietzsche] |
4501 | Utilitarianism criticises the origins of morality, but still believes in it as much as Christians [Nietzsche] |
22404 | Any group interested in ethics must surely have a sentiment of generalised benevolence [Smart] |
4124 | Utilitarian benevolence involves no particular attachments, and is immune to the inverse square law [Williams,B] |
3262 | Utilitarianism is too demanding [Nagel] |