In Utilitarianism, first published in 1861, John Stuart Mill explains that 'utilitarianism requires
[one] to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator'. The impartiality
requirement has been a central tenet of most iterations of utilitarianism since then and is one
of the more contentious issues when it comes to evaluating its plausibility as an ethical
theory. Can we, really, take an impartial approach to ethical decision-making? And, what's
more, should we? In What We Owe the Future, MacAskill does not explicitly identify himself�…

Moral circle expansion has been occurring faster than ever before in the last forty years, with
moral agency fully extended to all humans regardless of their ethnicity, and regardless of
their geographical location, as well as to animals, plants, ecosystems and even artificial
intelligence. This process has made even more headway in recent years with the
establishment of moral obligations towards future generations. Responsible for this
development is the moral theory–and its associated movement–of longtermism, the bible of�…

Peter West, What We Owe the Future: A Million Year View. By William Mac Askill. (London: One
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