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    It is not the case that 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'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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    • 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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