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Principles, Sympathy and Doing What's Right

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

John Harris
John Harris
Affiliation:
City of Birmingham Polytechnic
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Philosophy , Volume 52 , Issue 199 , January 1977 , pp. 96 - 99
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1977

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References

1 Bennett, Jonathan, ‘The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn’, Philosophy, 49, No. 188 (04 1974).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Ibid., 133.

3 Ibid., 132.

4 For a further look into the difficulties surrounding this sort of approach to moral problems see Williams, Bernard, ‘A Critique of Utilitarianism’, in Smart, J. J. C. and Williams, Bernard, Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge, 1973)Google Scholar and Harris, John, ‘Williams on Negative Responsibility and Integrity’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 24, No. 96 (07 1974).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 Bennett, Jonathan, 124.Google Scholar

6 Butler, Joseph, Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel, Roberts, T. A. (ed.) (London 1970)Google Scholar. Sermon 11. I am grateful to Alan Montefiore for pointing out to me the parallel between Butler's distinction and the point I wished to make.