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    Justice, as a species of duty under Mill's account, inher... — Carmelics
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    Justice, as a species of duty under Mill's account, inherits the indirect character of sanction utilitarianism.

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    • 1.Mill's account of duty is an indirect form of utilitarianism (sanction utilitarianism).
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    • 2.Justice is a species of duty under Mill's account.
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    • 1.Mill treats justice as grounded in a distinct sentiment—the impulse to defend rights—that operates independently of utility calculations.
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    • 2.If justice has its own psychological and normative basis in rights-protection, it cannot simply inherit its character from sanction utilitarianism.
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    • 3.A species can possess distinctive properties not derived from its genus, so justice-as-duty need not share duty's indirect structure.
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    • 1.Brandt and Lyons argue Mill's Utilitarianism Chapter 5 treats justice as lexically prior to other duties, not merely a subspecies of them.
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    • 2.If justice carries stronger, near-absolute obligatory force than ordinary duty, it resists reduction to the sanction-based indirect framework governing duty generally.
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    Because this account of duty defines the rightness and wrongness of an act, not in terms of its utility, as act utilitarianism does, but in terms of the utility of applying sanctions to the conduct, it is an indirect form of utilitarianism. Because justice is a species of duty, it inherits this indirect character (also see Lyons 1994). Because it makes the deontic status of conduct depend upon the utility of sanctioning that conduct in some way, we might call this conception of duty, justice, an
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