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    Moore's brand of consequentialism (the view that the righ... — Carmelics
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    Moore's brand of consequentialism (the view that the right action is always the action with the best actual consequences) must be rejected.

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    • 1.Moral agents cannot reliably calculate actual consequences before acting, as Sidgwick noted in Methods of Ethics (1874).
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    • 2.A theory that makes rightness depend on unknowable facts at decision-time renders moral guidance practically impossible.
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    • 3.Bernard Williams argued that an action-guiding moral theory must be assessable from the deliberative standpoint prior to action.
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    • 1.Ross's prima facie duties framework shows that fidelity, gratitude, and justice generate obligations independent of outcome optimization.
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    • 2.If Moore's view were correct, breaking a solemn promise whenever marginally better consequences result would always be obligatory, which contradicts robust moral intuitions.
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    • 3.Rawls in 'Two Concepts of Rules' demonstrated that rule-based constraints on consequentialist reasoning better match our considered judgments about justice.
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    • 1.There are some actions which we ought to do even though they will not produce the best actual consequences.
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    • 2.Moore's brand of consequentialism holds that the right action is always the action with the best actual consequences.
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    • 3.These two claims are incompatible.
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    But Russell did not reject Moore’s brand of consequentialism because it was inconsistent with his moral conservatism, since he also rejected Moore’s moral conservatism. As he informed Moore by letter, he regarded his views on Practical Ethics as “unduly Conservative and anti-reforming”. However, anybody who thinks that there are some actions which we ought to do even though, as a matter of fact they won’t have the best consequences must, reject Moore’s view. And it is precisely because he believ
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    There are some actions which we ought to do even though they will not produce th...
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