ROSSIAN PLURALISM, EGOISM, AND PLEASURE.

In this paper I register disagreement with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer on three significant issues. First, Sidgwick does not give utilitarianism the advantage over Rossian pluralistic intuitionism. Both views are still very much in the running. Second, his dualism survives their evolutionary argument. The egoist principle is no more or less vulnerable to debunking than the principle of impartial benevolence. Third, though his view on pleasure is not entirely clear, Sidgwick is best understood to be offering a traditional 'feeling- tone' account of pleasure, rather than a view which gives a significant role to the 'apprehension' of the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]