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Why should we be consistent? Formal ethics sketches how we might try to justify the consistency requirement
{ 1 } - as required by more basic normative principles (whether utilitarian or non-utilitarian).
{ 2 } - as harmonizing with our actual or ideal intuitions, feelings, or desires.
{ 3 } - as deducible from non-evaluative facts (about social conventions, or about what an ideal observer would desire, or about God's will).
{ 4 } - as a means to promoting our desires (whether these desires be idealistic or self-interested).
{ 5 } - all of these are discussed.
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Why should we be consistent? Formal ethics sketches how we might try to justify the consistency requirement
{ 1 } - as required by more basic normative principles (whether utilitarian or non-utilitarian).
{ 2 } - as harmonizing with our actual or ideal intuitions, feelings, or desires.
{ 3 } - as deducible from non-evaluative facts (about social conventions, or about what an ideal observer would desire, or about God's will).
{ 4 } - as a means to promoting our desires (whether these desires be idealistic or self-interested).
{ 5 } - all of these are discussed.
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Why should we be consistent? Formal ethics sketches how we might try to justify the consistency requirement
{ 1 } - as required by more basic normative principles (whether utilitarian or non-utilitarian).
{ 2 } - as harmonizing with our actual or ideal intuitions, feelings, or desires.
{ 3 } - as deducible from non-evaluative facts (about social conventions, or about what an ideal observer would desire, or about God's will).
{ 4 } - as a means to promoting our desires (whether these desires be idealistic or self-interested).
{ 5 } - all of these are discussed.
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Why should we be consistent? Formal ethics sketches how we might try to justify the consistency requirement
{ 1 } - as required by more basic normative principles (whether utilitarian or non-utilitarian).
{ 2 } - as harmonizing with our actual or ideal intuitions, feelings, or desires.
{ 3 } - as deducible from non-evaluative facts (about social conventions, or about what an ideal observer would desire, or about God's will).
{ 4 } - as a means to promoting our desires (whether these desires be idealistic or self-interested).
{ 5 } - all of these are discussed.
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Why should we be consistent? Formal ethics sketches how we might try to justify the consistency requirement
{ 1 } - as required by more basic normative principles (whether utilitarian or non-utilitarian).
{ 2 } - as harmonizing with our actual or ideal intuitions, feelings, or desires.
{ 3 } - as deducible from non-evaluative facts (about social conventions, or about what an ideal observer would desire, or about God's will).
{ 4 } - as a means to promoting our desires (whether these desires be idealistic or self-interested).
{ 5 } - all of these are discussed.
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Why should we be consistent? Formal ethics sketches how we might try to justify the consistency requirement
{ 1 } - as required by more basic normative principles (whether utilitarian or non-utilitarian).
{ 2 } - as harmonizing with our actual or ideal intuitions, feelings, or desires.
{ 3 } - as deducible from non-evaluative facts (about social conventions, or about what an ideal observer would desire, or about God's will).
{ 4 } - as a means to promoting our desires (whether these desires be idealistic or self-interested).
{ 5 } - all of these are discussed.
Formal ethics sketches how one might try to justify the consistency requirement from a range of different perspectives.
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