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T AIM of this essay is to clarify the models of moral thinking and doing called teleology and deontology, to gain understanding of utilitarianism as a subcategory of the former, and to explore the relation both to utilitarianism and to teleology in general of certain Christian "consequentialist" modes of moral argument. This purpose arises out of a general and considerable unclarity in recent e...

It has been argued that evolutionary considerations favour utilitarianism by selectively debunking its competitors. However, also seem to undermine the practical significance of utilitarianism, since commonsense beliefs about well-being like prime candidates for debunking. We argue is not undermined in this way if we understand requirements rationality as sensitive normative uncertainty. consid...