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EPISODE · Oct 7, 2021 · 54 MIN

Has the pandemic shown the unassailability of utilitarianism — or its inherent limitations?

from The Minefield · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

As the philosopher Bernard Williams anticipated, utilitarianism has largely disappeared from public view, not because it is no longer adhered to, but because it has become the “operating system” that governs most of our public decision-making. What the COVID-19 pandemic has done is make that hidden calculus explicit.

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