Midterm Review

It is widely supposed that if there are agent-centered moral constraints then some version of non-consequentialism is true. For example, suppose we accept the agent-centered constraint that you ought not kill even to prevent more killing by others. Many think that accepting such a constraint amounts to rejecting consequentialism. Agent-relative consequentialists have recently put pressure on this idea by putting forward a version of consequentialism that is able to incorporate agent-centered constraints. This paper takes this response a step further by arguing that consequentialism is the only plausible way of incorporating agent-centered constraints into a normative theory.