Do you know if this is a well-known position in consequentialist philosophy? It seems like it must be, but I only got as far as the Wikipedia page on deserts) and it seems to cover a discussion among deontologists,,,
There’s a fair amount of debate about what exactly the formalism of consequentialism excludes or doesn’t, and whether it’s possible to view deontological views (or indeed any other moral theory) as a subset of consequentialism. The idea that any moral view can be seen as a version of consequentlialism is often referred to as “Dreier’s conjecture” (see e.g. the discussion here.)
Usually, consequentialist aggregration functions impose an anonymity requirement, which seems to discourage desert as a consideration (it requires that the identity of individuals can’t matter to what they get). But even that doesn’t really exclude it.
Do you know if this is a well-known position in consequentialist philosophy? It seems like it must be, but I only got as far as the Wikipedia page on deserts) and it seems to cover a discussion among deontologists,,,
There’s a fair amount of debate about what exactly the formalism of consequentialism excludes or doesn’t, and whether it’s possible to view deontological views (or indeed any other moral theory) as a subset of consequentialism. The idea that any moral view can be seen as a version of consequentlialism is often referred to as “Dreier’s conjecture” (see e.g. the discussion here.)
Usually, consequentialist aggregration functions impose an anonymity requirement, which seems to discourage desert as a consideration (it requires that the identity of individuals can’t matter to what they get). But even that doesn’t really exclude it.