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Ideas for 'Syntactic Structure', 'Rule Utilitarianism and Euthanasia' and 'Persons, Character and Morality'

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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

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For utilitarians states of affairs are what have value, not matter who produced them [Williams,B]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 2. Ideal of Pleasure

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Modern utilitarians value knowledge, friendship, autonomy, and achievement, as well as pleasure [Hooker,B]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 5. Rule Utilitarianism

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Rule-utilitarians prevent things like torture, even on rare occasions when it seems best [Hooker,B]