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    Secondary moral principles provide support for utilitaria... — Carmelics
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    Secondary moral principles provide support for utilitarianism rather than undermining it

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    • 1.Secondary principles are adopted and internalized because of their acceptance value
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    • 2.The continued use of secondary principles should be regulated by their ongoing comparative acceptance value
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    • 3.The importance of secondary principles in moral reasoning is consistent with utilitarian first principles
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    • 1.Secondary principles like justice carry independent moral weight that agents recognize prior to and apart from any utility calculation.
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    • 2.If secondary principles derive their authority solely from acceptance value, then cases where justice conflicts with utility reveal that agents are actually tracking something non-utilitarian.
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    • 3.Mill's own 'proof' in Utilitarianism chapter 5 concedes justice has a 'peculiar sentiment' attached to it, suggesting its normative force is not reducible to aggregated welfare.
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    • 1.Ross's prima facie duties demonstrate that secondary principles generate genuine moral residue when overridden, which a purely instrumental utilitarian justification cannot explain.
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    • 2.If secondary principles were merely heuristics for utility, violating them when utility demands should produce no remainder-obligation, yet moral phenomenology consistently registers such remainders.
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    Mill’s utilitarian justification of secondary principles is intended as a contrast with the intuitionism of William Whewell and others. As he makes clear in his essay “Whewell on Moral Philosophy”(CW X), Mill thinks that the intuitionist wrongly treats familiar moral precepts as ultimate moral factors whose justification is supposed to be self-evident. By contrast, Mill’s account of secondary principles recognizes their importance in moral reasoning but insists that they are neither innate nor i
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