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Without clear support for the rule utilitarian reading of secondary principles, it seems that Mill's main claims about secondary principles are not inconsistent with act utilitarianism.
We saw that Mill recognizes the need for various secondary principles in moral reasoning (§2.9).
Mill's utilitarian justification of secondary principles is intended as a contrast with the intuitionism of William Whewell and others.
Whereas the sanction theory of rights appears problematic, the secondary principles and pre-eminent goods conceptions appear more plausible.
Moreover, it is clear that Mill thinks we need to depart from otherwise justified secondary principles in an important range of cases.
Thus, the function of conscience for Aquinas is to apply the general principles of synderesis and the more content-laden secondary principles developed from prudence to particular circumstances.
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Unlike the principles of superposition and crosscutting, faunal succession is a secondary principle.
The biggest difference is between the sanction theory, on the one hand, and the secondary principle and pre-eminent goods conceptions, on the other hand, because the first is an indirect utilitarian conception of rights, whereas the second two are compatible with direct utilitarianism.
In Bentham's hands this took the form of a multitude of subordinate or secondary ends, principles and maxims designed to give practical direction to the utility principle in each and every aspect of the law.
Therefore, we compared the adherence to secondary prevention principles between poststroke and CHD patients.
The two secondary allocation principles, termed Emission-based and GDP-based, distribute allowable emissions according to cumulative historical emissions and cumulative historical GDP respectively.
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