Act utilitarianism and the moral fanatic
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Mark Timmons
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Article
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1984
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Act utilitarianism generally and various act utilitarian (AU) principles, have received a good deal of attention from philosophers -most of it negative and destructive in character. Indeed, it is hard to find a contemporary philosopher who would admit to being an act utilitarian; the problems are nu