caa a22 4500 606238069 CHVBK 20210128101256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9599-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9599-z Nelson Mark Department of Philosophy, Westmont College, 93108, Santa Barbara, CA, USA aut What the Utilitarian Cannot Think [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Nelson] I argue that utilitarianism cannot accommodate a basic sort of moral judgment that many people want to make. I raise a real-life example of shockingly bad behavior and ask what can the utilitarian say about it. I concede that the utilitarian can say that this behavior caused pain to the victim; that pain is bad; that the agent's behavior was impermissible; even that the agent's treatment of the victim was vicious. However, there is still one thing the utilitarian cannot say, namely that the agent wronged the victim, that they violated her. According to utilitarianism, moral offenses are offenses against global utility, right reason or the totality of sentient beings, but never against individual victims, yet this aspect of the action - that it is an offense against a particular person -is highlighted when we say that this action wronged that woman. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Utilitarianism nationallicence Wrongness nationallicence Violation nationallicence Adams nationallicence Quinn nationallicence Wolterstorff nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/4(2015-08-01), 717-729 1386-2820 18:4<717 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9599-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9599-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nelson Mark Department of Philosophy, Westmont College, 93108, Santa Barbara, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/4(2015-08-01), 717-729 1386-2820 18:4<717 2015 18 10677