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    Agent-relative value can be coherently built into consequ... — Carmelics
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    Agent-relative value can be coherently built into consequentialism.

    Consequentialism
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    • 1.In competitive cases, it can maximize the good from an agent's perspective to perform an act, while maximizing the good from an observer's perspective to prevent that same act.
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    • 2.This divergence between agent and observer evaluations is legitimate when evaluations are agent-relative rather than agent-neutral.
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    • 3.If agent-relative value makes sense, it can be incorporated into consequentialist moral theory.
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    • 1.Consequentialism is defined by impartial aggregation of outcomes from a neutral standpoint, as Parfit and Scheffler both argue.
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    • 2.Agent-relative value requires that an agent's relationship to an outcome partly constitutes its moral weight, violating impartiality.
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    • 3.A theory that abandons impartial aggregation has abandoned the constitutive core of consequentialism, not expanded it.
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    • 1.Samuel Scheffler's agent-centered prerogatives show that accommodating special obligations requires rejecting the consequentialist maximizing structure.
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    • 2.If agent-relative value is coherently built in, the resulting theory is extensionally equivalent to a moderate deontology, not consequentialism.
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    • 3.A theory that replicates deontological verdicts through redefined value terms achieves terminological victory, not theoretical unification.
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    This kind of case leads some consequentialists to introduce agent-relativity into their theory of value (Sen 1982, Broome 1991, Portmore 2001, 2003). To apply a consequentialist moral theory, we need to compare the world with the transplant to the world without the transplant. If this comparative evaluation must be agent-neutral, then, if an observer judges that the world with the transplant is better, the agent must make the same judgment, or else one of them is mistaken. However, if such evalu
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