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We can either choose the aggressive and exclusive tendencies that have developed in practically all religious and secular traditions or we can cultivate those that speak of compassion, empathy, respect and an impartial "concern for everybody".
On the contrary, his fundamental position in international politics is a committed cosmopolitanism, an impartial concern for all human beings.
Choosing the smaller good or the greater bad makes one's life, as a whole, turn out worse: "Rationality requires an impartial concern for all parts of our life.
As John Gray sees it, Hayek commended the laws of justice "as being the indispensable condition for the promotion of the general welfare" but Hayek held, at the same time, that "an impartial concern for the general welfare is itself one of the demands of universalizability" (Gray 1984, 65).
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Singer, who is perhaps the world's best known utilitarian philosopher, argues in his book "The Expanding Circle" that the relative neocortical sophistication of humans allows us to rationally broaden our ethical duty beyond the "tribe" — to an equal and impartial concern for all human beings.
Since we construct the impartial spectator within us out of attitudes in the society around us, how can that spectator reach beyond our society sufficiently to achieve a sensitive and impartial concern for members of other societies, and to recognize where our society's sentiments are biased or corrupt?
This notion of taking Heaven as a moral role model leads the Mohists to develop a credible normative theory based on equal, impartial concern for the welfare of all.
My dictionary offers this definition of statesman: "a senior politician who is widely respected for integrity and impartial concern for the public good".
At its base stands the notion of impartial concern for the benefit of all, as epitomized by the point of view of Heaven, an ideally benevolent, impartial agent who cares equally about everyone's welfare.
But the consequentialist standard of promoting everyone's welfare probably would not demand that each of us realize the attitude of equal care, or equal and impartial concern for everyone.
Does this mean that to have impartial concern is to have equal concern for others no matter what one's relationship to them?
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