William Godwin and the Defence of Impartialist Ethics

1 May 1995

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Utilitas

Vol. 7 (1) , 67-86
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0953820800001850

Abstract

Impartialism in ethics has been said to be the common ground shared by both Kantian and utilitarian approaches to ethics. Lawrence Blum describes this common ground as follows: Both views identify morality with a perspective of impartiality, impersonality, objectivity and universality. Both views imply the ‘ubiquity of impartiality” – that our commitments and projects derive their legitimacy only by reference to this impartial perspective.

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