The Plausibility of Utilitarianism

FAIN: FS-10100-75

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Richard B. Brandt (Project Director: January 1975 to present)

To conduct a seminar on the plausibility of Utilitarianism. The seminar will appraise the importance of analysis of moral terms in ordinary use for normative reasoning, and an explanation why some contemporary psychological theory provides for limited objective criticism of both actions and desires. The results will be applied to the question of what kind of moral system a rational person would want for the society in which he lived.