{"id":26,"date":"2005-01-14T22:48:30","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T22:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2006-02-25T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T22:40:04","slug":"uitility-as-intermediate-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/moral-theory\/uitility-as-intermediate-principle-26","title":{"rendered":"Uitility as intermediate principle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another. It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform a traveller respecting the place of his ultimate destination, is not to forbid the use of landmarks and direction-posts on the way. [<a href=\"biblog\/?p=54\"><em>Utilitarianism<\/em><\/a>, Chapter 2]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mill here <em>almost<\/em> seems to concede the possibility that utilitarianism is not a \u201cfirst principle\u201d\u009d but closer to a moral strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another. It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/moral-theory\/uitility-as-intermediate-principle-26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uitility as intermediate principle?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-s-mill","category-moral-theory","category-utilitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}