Shaw defends his favorite theory in two stages.
It is also egalitarian in that it takes everyone's welfare into account. In short, utilitarianism is consequentialist and welfarist. Second, utilitarians believe that the good is additive. only in virtue of the well-being of the lives of particular individuals. Utilitarianism holds, first, that a state of affairs is good or bad to some degree. Shaw presents his rather classical portrait of utilitarianism as: The first, and shortest, portion of Shaw's book deals mainly with utilitarianism, the second with war.
