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Are egoism and consequentialism self-refuting?
Crisp, Roger
Crisp, Roger
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The paper defends egoism and consequentialism against Dancy’s charge that they are self-refuting. Exegesis and criticism is provided of relevant arguments in Parfit and Dancy, and special attention is paid to the notion of blameless wrongdoing and to the act/agent distinction. The paper concludes that neither theory, if properly stated, is self-refuting, nor indeed indirectly self-defeating.
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egoism, self-interest theory, consequentialism, utilitarianism, Dancy, Parfit, self-refutation, self-defeat, blameless wrongdoing, act/agent distinction
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2013
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Thinking about reasons: Themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy
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1-16
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