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Impartiality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Summer 2022 Edition)

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Impartiality is sometimes treated by philosophers as if it were equivalent to moral impartiality. Or, at the very least, the former word is often used, without the qualifying adjective ‘moral’, even when it is the particularly moral concept that is intended. This is misleading, since impartiality in its broadest sense is best understood as a formal notion, while moral impartiality in particular is a substantive concept – and one concerning which there is considerable dispute. The idea that impartiality is a defining feature of the moral outlook raises obvious questions and difficulties in relation to our ordinary beliefs and behaviors. Most of us live in ways that exhibit considerable partiality toward relatives, friends, and other loved ones, and to others with whom we are affiliated or associated. The existence of vast global disparities in the distribution of wealth and access to resources may not seem to accord well with the characteristically modern view that all people are in som

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