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Note on Doubts About Prima Facie Duties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1971

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References

1 Jones, Peter, ‘Doubts About Prima Facie Duties’, Philosophy, XLV, January 1970, pp. 3954.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 These points are discussed in some detail in my paper ‘Utilitarianism and Ross's Theory of Prima Facie Duties’, forthcoming in Dialogue.

3 The clearest statement of this is in Ross's summary of his system given in Chapter XIII of Foundations of Ethics (London, 1939). See pp. 312–3.

4 The Right and the Good (London, 1930), p. 31, my italics.