TY - JOUR
AU1 - Bell, LindaA.
AB -  *A version of this paper was read at the 1976 meeting of the Eastern Philosophical Association. For their perceptive observations and suggestions, I wish to thank Professors C. G. Luckhardt. Georgia State University, and Nicholas Fotion, Emory University. IAdmittedly the notion of absurdity may not be quite so unproblematic as we normally assume. Even if it is limited to explicit contradiction, interesting questions can still arise concerning whether the contradiction reached is necessarily a contradiction of the original position or only a contradiction of something else known to be true. This has been one of the foci o a recent debate over the f reductio ad absurdurn. 2Further difficulties with the reduch’o of moral systems would result from the espousal of an extreme emotivism with respect to the meaning of moral statements, but these will be ignored in this paper. 234 LINDA A. BELL mind brought with it a new abstract cruelty in politics, a dull, destructive political righteousnesd.8 The second example of this type of reductio is developed by Bernard Williams in “A Critique of Utilitarianism”, where he argues that, in a situation of conflict, “utilitarianism has a particular tendency to raise the conflict to new levels”.’ 
TI - UTILITARIANISM AND THE REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM *
JF - Metaphilosophy
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.1978.tb00797.x
DA - 1978-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/utilitarianism-and-the-reductio-ad-absurdum-xzjcmaEFi2
SP - 233
VL - 9
IS - 3‐4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -