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Value Receptacles
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Value Receptacles

Richard Yetter Chappell
Noûs (Bloomington, Indiana), Vol.49(2), pp.322-332
2015-06-01

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Arts & Humanities Philosophy
Utilitarianism is often rejected on the grounds that it fails to respect the separateness of persons, instead treating people as mere receptacles of value. I develop several different versions of this objection, and argue that, despite their prima facie plausibility, they are all mistaken. Although there are crude forms of utilitarianism that run afoul of these objections, I advance a new form of the viewtoken-pluralistic utilitarianism'that does not.

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