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Utilitarianism; For and Against By J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams Cambridge University Press, 1973, 150 pp., 80p - Utilitarian Ethics By Anthony Quinton London: Macmillan Papermac, New Studies in Ethics Series, 1973, 117 pp., 95P - Morality. An Introduction to Ethics By Bernard Williams Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973, 112 pp., 30p

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Utilitarianism; For and Against By J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams Cambridge University Press, 1973, 150 pp., 80p
Utilitarian Ethics By Anthony Quinton London: Macmillan Papermac, New Studies in Ethics Series, 1973, 117 pp., 95P
Morality. An Introduction to Ethics By Bernard Williams Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973, 112 pp., 30p

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Philosophy , Volume 49 , Issue 188 , April 1974 , pp. 212 - 215
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1974

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1 ‘Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people’ (John 18.14). This subsequent bad publicity was, as any utilitarian will agree, a piece of quite incalculable ill luck.

2 Gorgias 494 b–e.