American philosopher who has defended moral realism and developed a perfectionistic version of consequentialism, drawing on Mill.
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics: the best defense of moral realism from naturalism — moral properties are real but natural; moral epistemology proceeds like empirical epistemology. Perfectionism: a form of objective list theory in which human excellence contributes to welfare.
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