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- Title
Rational Numbers: A Non-Consequentialist Explanation Of Why You Should Save The Many And Not The Few Rational Numbers: A Non-Consequentialist Explanation Of Why You Should Save The Many And Not The Few.
- Authors
Dougherty, Tom
- Abstract
You ought to save a larger group of people rather than a distinct smaller group of people, all else equal. A consequentialist may say that you ought to do so because this produces the most good. If a non-consequentialist rejects this explanation, what alternative can he or she give? This essay defends the following explanation, as a solution to the so-called numbers problem. Its two parts can be roughly summarised as follows. First, you are morally required to want the survival of each stranger for its own sake. Secondly, you are rationally required to achieve as many of these ends as possible, if you have these ends.
- Subjects
CONSEQUENTIALISM (Ethics); ENDS &; means; ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY; UTILITARIANISM
- Publication
Philosophical Quarterly, 2013, Vol 63, Issue 252, p413
- ISSN
0031-8094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9213.12047