If secondary principles derive their authority solely from acceptance value, then cases where justice conflicts with utility reveal that agents are actually tracking something non-utilitarian.
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authority(as another method a physician might use to ensure patients comply with treatment)
The power or right to make decisions and have others follow them, based on expertise or position. A doctor has authority because of their medical knowledge.
Moral rules or principles that are derived from and justified by the utilitarian first principle, intended to guide ordinary moral decision-making without requiring direct utility calculation each time
utilitarian(The passage notes inconsistent usage of the term across philosophers)
A label applied non-uniformly: sometimes restricted to welfarist consequentialists, sometimes extended to non-welfarist consequentialists as well
utility(Mill's qualification distinguishing his conception of utility from narrower hedonistic or preference-based interpretations.)
Utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being — not mere immediate pleasure or preference satisfaction.