impartialist

Consequently, they argue, these impartialist moral theories must understand friendship to be inherently biased and therefore not to be inherently moral.

Friendship Helm, Bennett 2009

Writing about a case in which someone in a lifeboat must choose between saving a stranger and saving his or her spouse, Williams argued that an impartialist morality that would demand that the agent consider whether giving preference to the spouse is permissible gives that agent “one thought too many” (Williams 1981, 18).

Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

Williams 'position, here, is compatible with the claim that the impartialist considerations actually obtain in this case.

Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

The fact remains that there are many types of partialist theories, and many types of impartialist ones, and that continuing to speak of the

Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

It is useful, then, to draw a distinction between two sorts of impartialist moral theory.

Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

Although many people continue to speak of a ˜partialist vs. impartialist debate,™ it should by now be clear that neither

Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

(Godwin's, for example) might be referred to as strict impartialist theories.

Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

Whether this extreme position really is required, either by moral impartiality or by the demand that we treat people as equals, is a matter of great dispute, not only between partialists and impartialists but within the impartialist camp itself.

Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

Rather, the deontologist will claim, it reflects the fact that it is morally legitimate (perhaps, again, because justifiable in second-order impartialist terms) for an agent to regard her own goals and interests as especially important to her.

Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

Impartialist theories which allow for some first-order partiality, but which nevertheless insist that all such behavior be justified in second-order impartialist terms, might be referred to as fundamentally impartialist moral theories.

Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006