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ECLECTIC DISTRIBUTIONAL ETHICS By
Utilitarians, egalitarians, prioritarians, and sufficientarians each provide examples of situations demonstrating, often compellingly, that a sensible ethical observer must adopt their view and reject the others. We argue, to the contrary, that an attractive ethic is eclectic, in the sense of coinciding with these apparently different views in different regions of the space of social states. 1 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1838
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm183801100172303