1. See M. Slote, Commonsense Morality and Consequentialism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985); and M. Slote, Beyond Optimizing: A Study of Rational Choice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991).
2. This example is based on Philippa Foot's famous Trolley Case': see her The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect' reprinted in her Virtues and Vices (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978).
3. For a fuller version of the arguments of Sections III and IV, see my 'Slote's Satisfying Consequentialism', Ratio, New Series. Volume 6 (1993), pp. 121-34.
4. Beyond Optimizing, p. 27.
5. For Scheffler's theory, see S. Scheffler, The Rejection of Consequentialism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982). Kagan's objection is presented in S. Kagan, 'Does Consequentialism Demand Too Much?', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 13 (1984), pp. 239-54.