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    Impartiality is constitutive of the Utility principle, no... — Carmelics
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    Impartiality is constitutive of the Utility principle, not merely a supplement to it

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    • 1.The Greatest-Happiness Principle is a mere form of words without rational signification unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree, is counted for exactly as much as another's
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    • 2.Bentham's dictum 'everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one' is an explanatory commentary written under the principle of utility
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    • 1.Bentham's dictum was introduced as a procedural aggregation rule governing how to sum utilities, not as a constraint internal to utility itself.
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    • 2.A principle can be maximized partial or impartially; impartiality governs the application procedure, not the identity of the maximand.
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    • 3.Mill's own proof treats utility as the sole object of desire prior to any interpersonal accounting, showing utility is defined independently of impartiality.
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    • 1.Sidgwick distinguished the 'universalistic' reading of utilitarianism from the concept of welfare itself, treating impartiality as a separate axiom of rational benevolence.
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    • 2.If impartiality were constitutive of utility, violations of impartiality would be logical contradictions rather than moral failures—an implausibly strong claim Mill's text does not support.
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    It [impartiality] is involved in the very meaning of Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person’s happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another’s. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham’s dictum ‘everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one,’ might be written under the principle of utility as an explanatory commentary. Th
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