Russ Shafer-Landau Is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Russ Shafer-Landau is professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books including The Fundamentals of Ethics, fourth edition (2017) and The Ethical Life, fourth edition (2017). He is also the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics. In this reading he reviews some common criticisms of utilitarianism and argues that although some of them are less than decisive, others pose serious problems for the theory. Utilitarianism's most crippling shortcomings are its insistence that there is no intrinsic wrongness (or rightness) and its requirement that we must maximize well-being even if justice is thwarted.
-According to Aristotle, only divine activities aim at the good.

Explain the role of introspection and social feedback in developing self-knowledge.

Understand the theory of the "looking-glass self" and its implications for self-perception.

Grasp the concept of social comparison and its impact on personal assessment and motivation.

Appreciate the influence of cultural norms and values on self-conception and behavior.

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