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    Challenges→Russell's consequentialist theory of 'ought' judgments generates a spurious appearance of semantic harmony where in fact there is genuine conflict and contradiction.

    If 'ought' judgments are indexed to different visions of the good, then two agents making contradictory-sounding 'ought' claims are actually making compatible claims.

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    But the situation is a little different when we come to judgments about what is right or what ought to be done. As we have seen, Russell is inclined to give such judgments a consequentialist reading and then to index them to some presumed set of projects. It is therefore true with respect to, say, Russell and myself that we ought to abolish the Death Penalty, since abolishing the Death Penalty is conducive to the ends that we happen to favor. But it is equally true with respect to some hardcore

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