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“The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.”

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Dale Jamieson

Limited information is available about Dale Jamieson, who was born on October 21, 1947, and is of an unknown profession. more

“In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate the "green virtues" which includes the virtue of cooperativeness. This would not bring about the best possible world but it would set us on the path of making it better.”

World Should Heart Problem Action Faces Virtue Path Crisis Green Environmental Collectives Collective Action Environmental Crisis

Author:Dale Jamieson

“Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it can emulate the requirements of other moral theories when it is the case that acting on those theories would improve the world.”

Thinking World Ideas Real Acting Moral Cases Virtue Strange Theory Philosopher Requirements Emulate Real Strength Consequentialism

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“What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many of the objections to Consequentialism purport to show that Consequentialism requires us to make the world a stinking, bloody mess. The ubiquity of these kinds of arguments shows you just how unseriously many of the critics take Consequentialism.”

World Way Kind Shows Form Argument Critics Mess Bloody Objections Ubiquity Consequentialism

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“I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.”

Ideas Moments Psychology Groups Planets Apes Small Groups Savanna

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“We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.”

Mind Middle Movement Fields Objects Sight Size Visuals Noticing

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“We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and we're pretty awful at abstract thought, much less acting on it.”

Animal Acting Environment Senses Awful Abstract Steady Our Environment Noticing

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“We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.”

Powerful Representation Adaptable

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“I'm a subjectivist about morality.”

Morality

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“I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.”

Humans Psychology Ethics

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