"The sentiment to which [the utilitarian] appeals is generalized benevolence, that is, the disposition to seek happine…"

"[A] purely hedonistic utilitarian, like Bentham, might agree with Mill in preferring the experiences of discontented …"

"Men were made for higher things, one can’t help wanting to say, even though one knows that men weren’t made for anyth…"

"Another type of ultimate disagreement between utilitarians, whether hedonistic or ideal, can arise over whether we sh…"

"The utilitarian’s ultimate moral principle...expresses the sentiment not of altruism but of benevolence, the agent co…"

"Normally the utilitarian is able to assume that the remote effects of his actions tend rapidly to zero...It seems pla…"

"Nor is this utilitarian doctrine incompatible...with a recognition of the importance of warm and spontaneous expressi…"

"Certainly there would be no future suffering on earth if all life on earth ceased. But most people seem glad that the…"

"I want to illustrate the relevance of metaphysics to ethics by reference to what is the greatest moral problem that h…"

"The reason why there are hardly ever completely knock-down arguments, except between very like minded philosophers, i…"