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The Burdens of Morality


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Article

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Authors

Dougherty, Tom 

Abstract

jats:pA classic objection to act-consequentialism is that it is overdemanding: it requires agents to bear too many costs for the sake of promoting the impersonal good. I develop the complementary objection that act-consequentialism is underdemanding: it fails to acknowledge that agents have moral reasons to bear certain costs themselves, evenwhen itwould be impersonally better for others to bear these costs.</jats:p>

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Keywords

act-consequentialism, demandingness, burdens, options, impersonal

Journal Title

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

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Journal ISSN

2161-2234

Volume Title

5

Publisher

Philosophy Documentation Center