The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 1, 2007

Ethics

Human Dignity and Non-Utilitarian Consequentialist "Ethics of Social Consequences"

The main objective of my paper is to show that human dignity has a significant position in my ethics of social consequences (I defend a form of non-utilitarian consequentialism), arguing for a particular theory of the value of human dignity. I argue that my ethics of social consequences is capable of accepting human dignity and all authentic human moral values without exception. I think that my ethical theory of social consequences (as a form of non-utilitarian consequentialism) can provide the essential missing ingredient identified by the critics of utilitarianism.