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When Will Your Consequentialist Friend Abandon You for the Greater Good

Woodcock (2010)

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One-Sentence Thesis

The paper explores the tension between consequentialism and friendship, arguing that consequentialists can accommodate friendship by emphasizing the value of friendship and using indirect decision-making procedures.

Argument Outline

  1. 1Introduction to the friendship objection to consequentialism
  2. 2Discussion of responses to the objection, including rule-consequentialism and satisficing consequentialism
  3. 3Emphasis on the distinction between criteria of rightness and decision-making procedures
  4. 4Argument that consequentialists can accommodate friendship by using indirect decision-making procedures
  5. 5Analysis of empirical factors that influence a consequentialist's decision to abandon their obligations to friends

Key Distinctions

Consequentialism vs. non-consequentialism
Act-consequentialism vs. rule-consequentialism
Direct vs. indirect decision-making procedures

Key Terms

Consequentialism
A moral theory that holds that an action is right if it promotes the greatest good
Friendship objection
The objection that consequentialism is incompatible with friendship because it requires agents to prioritize the greater good over their personal relationships
Indirect decision-making procedures
Decision-making procedures that take into account the value of friendship and other personal relationships

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