HL 1—Introduction

1—Introduction
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prosperity and individual liberty.
Note:IN TEORIA NN C È OPPOSIZIONE MA IN PRATICA ABBIAMO SMARRITO LA STRADA

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a more stubborn attachment to prosperity and freedom.
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I treat questions of right and wrong as having correct answers,
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a kind of “natural fact,”
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most people are not sincere in their relativist
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At some gut level, relativists still they think they know right from wrong;
Note:GUARDATELI MENTRE EDUCANO I FIGLI O SPETTEGOLANO SUI COLLEGHI

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I am not going to spend time discussing what the concepts of right and wrong really mean,
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as we consider the realm of politics, we should not engage in the sport of building a coalition of like-minded individuals, defeating competing coalitions, and then implementing as law that which we already know to be best. That’s a popular approach, and it makes us feel good about ourselves and our own supposed superiority, but it is unjustified. We need to be more modest when it comes to what we can possibly know.
Note:COME FARE POLITICA

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If we are building principles for politics, we need approaches which are relatively fortified against human error and the rampant human tendency for self-deception, and which can transcend our own tendencies for excessive “us vs. them” thinking.
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A fine-tuned philosophical doctrine which no one accepts or ever could accept won’t be of much use.
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accommodate both skepticism and belief
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I hold pluralism as a core moral intuition.
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a variety of relevant values, including human well-being, justice, fairness, beauty, the artistic peaks of human achievement, the quality of mercy, and the many different and, indeed, sometimes contrasting kinds of happiness. Life is complicated!
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Sometimes my fellow economists argue that “satisfying people’s preferences” is the only value that matters,
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“What we want” does not suffice to define the good.
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To give an extreme example, when we condemn a man who beats his wife, must we really calculate whether the suffering of the victim exceeds the pleasure of the hitter? I think not.
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I sometimes call myself a “two-thirds utilitarian,”
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I should not forcibly excise one of your kidneys simply because you can do without it and someone else needs one.
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“Right” and “wrong” are very real concepts
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We should be skeptical about the powers of the individual human mind.
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Human life is complex

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3… UTILITARISMO 2/3

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Time
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How should we weight the interests of the present against the more distant future?
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do we have legitimate reasons to weight the present more heavily simply because it is the here and now?
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Aggregation
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how we resolve disagreements
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the Arrow and Sen impossibility theorems,
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Yet we must resolve issues of clashing preferences virtually every day
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virtually all rules have exceptions.
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Sometimes it is moral to lie in order to save innocent victims
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looks for the rules that will maximize a broader definition of good consequences.
Note:LA FILOSOFIA ADOTTATA...CONTRO L UTILITARISMO DELLE REGOLE

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Radical uncertainty
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Given such long-run uncertainty, how can we possibly pretend to assess the good and bad consequences of our actions?
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How can we believe in rights?
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within philosophical circles, the foundations upon which the concept of rights rest are often viewed as shaky.
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I do believe in (nearly) absolute human rights.
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Common sense morality
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we should work hard, take care of our families, and live virtuous but self-centered lives, while giving to charity as we are able and helping out others on a periodic basis.
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Utilitarian philosophy, on the other hand, appears to suggest an extreme degree of self-sacrifice.
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Why should a mother tend to her baby when she could sell it and use the profits to save a greater number of babies in Haiti?
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figuring out whether the recommendations of utilitarianism and common sense morality could be made broadly compatible;
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These problems can indeed be resolved, and with a relatively small number of intellectual and philosophical “moves.”
Note:CONCLUSIONE...LA TESI DEL LIBRO

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Production could be much greater than it is today, and our lives could be more splendid. Or, if we make some big mistakes, production could be much lower, and we could all be much poorer.
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Ayn Rand is the one writer who has best understood the importance of production
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we must not take the existence of wealth for granted.

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RIPETIAMOLO

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individuals who will live in the future should be less distant from us, in moral terms,
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Their interests should hold greater sway over our calculations,
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It is no accident that religious people often have higher rates of fertility,
PRENDIAMO ESEMPIO DALLE RELIGIONI