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Tamler Sommers On the Urgency of Honor

The Daily Stoic

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Is Utilitarianism an Attack on Your Integrity?

You can rationalize a lot of stuff with what they call now peemptive whatabout. And i think you can imagine seneca saying to himself, if i leave the person whom nero has advised him after me could worse. There's no line that you won't cross, because everything could be worse than what you are currently consenting to. Yes, you know, it's funny, this reminds me of another philosopher o i think did great work, bernard williams. He has this famous objection to utilitarianism, that it is an attack on your integrity. But by integrity, he means like your actual construction as a person,. You have projects, you have emotions

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