Bernard Williams's integrity objection shows that reducing personal commitments to utility-maximizing strategies alienates agents from the very projects that constitute their identity.
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Personal commitments(as used in religious philosophy)
Deliberate choices or promises someone makes to follow certain beliefs or practices—for example, formally converting to a religion or publicly declaring faith.
Utility-maximizing(as used in ethics and decision-making)
Designed to produce the greatest overall happiness, benefit, or well-being for the most people possible.
agents(referring to people in this philosophical discussion)
People, or more broadly, any thinking being capable of having beliefs and making decisions.
integrity objection(Bernard Williams' moral philosophy, primarily in 'Utilitarianism: For and Against' and 'Moral Luck')
Williams' critique of utilitarianism that concerns not whether utilitarianism prescribes the right actions, but whether the kind of deliberative considerations utilitarianism employs (impersonal aggregation of utilities) adequately accounts for the agent's personal moral commitments and projects