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Intuitive Maximin
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35 (3):429 - 439 (2005)
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One standard objection to familiar utilitarian consequentialism queries its troubling commitment to the maximization of overall value irrespective of distribution, for instance among the well and badly off. Call this ‘the objection from distribution.’Author's Profile
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Consequentialism, group acts, and trolleys.Joseph Mendola - 2005 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (1):64–87.
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