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Patrick Nowell-Smith
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Patrick Nowell-Smith

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    utilitarianism
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    …science and moralist, and by Patrick Nowell-Smith, a moralist of the Oxford linguistic school; by the interpretation of Mill as a “rule” utilitarian by another Oxford philosopher, J.O. Urmson; and by the analysis by John Rawls, a Harvard political philosopher, of the significance for utilitarianism of two different conceptions of…

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    …science and moralist, and by Patrick Nowell-Smith, a moralist of the Oxford linguistic school; by the interpretation of Mill as a “rule” utilitarian by another Oxford philosopher, J.O. Urmson; and by the analysis by John Rawls, a Harvard political philosopher, of the significance for utilitarianism of two different conceptions of…

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