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    Moore resolved the inconsistency between actualist conseq... — Carmelics
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    Moore resolved the inconsistency between actualist consequentialism and moral conservatism by abandoning moral conservatism rather than modifying his consequentialism

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    • 1.Moore accepted that actualist consequentialism and moral conservatism are inconsistent
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    • 2.Moore did not modify his actualist consequentialism as Russell recommended
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    • 3.Moral conservatism present in Principia Ethica had disappeared by the time Moore wrote Ethics in 1912
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    • 1.Moore's Ethics retains rule-consequentialist reasoning, suggesting he reconceived rather than abandoned moral conservatism's practical commitments.
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    • 2.A shift from act-based to rule-based justification of conventional duties is a modification of consequentialism, not a rejection of conservatism.
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    • 1.Moore's Principia moral conservatism was epistemically motivated—grounded in uncertainty about consequences—not a freestanding deontological commitment.
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    • 2.If moral conservatism was always a probabilistic hedge within consequentialism, its disappearance in Ethics reflects refinement of the same framework, not abandonment of a rival principle.
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    He also seems to have accepted Russell’s ad hominem argument B—that, given the fairly obvious fact that doing the done thing does not always produce the best results, his actualist brand of consequentialism is inconsistent with his moral conservatism. However, he did not resolve the problem by modifying thesis (1) as Russell, in effect, recommended—instead he resolved it by dropping thesis (3). In Principia, moral conservatism had been “confidently recommended” to the conscientious “individual”.
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