id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_om3af4kn4zewrbbwnsppfxgtty Álvaro de Vita Individual preferences and social justice 2000 15 .pdf application/pdf 10314 541 53 the arguments I propose to reject the notion of individual preference as a sufficient basis for judgments Another point of view by which one might consider individual preferences is to see them as inputs of view: "The utilitarian theory I have proposed defines social utility in terms of individual utilities, social utility is defined in terms of people's personal preferences."3 However, before critiquing conception are the same as those producing desirable conscious states, or those towards which individuals develop the more intense preference. we should avoid value judgments aimed at individual preference and choice. view, we should only take into account the intensity of individual preferences and their distribution If we adopt the intensity of preferences as a standard to evaluate individual welfare If our conception of distributive equality depends on judgments of the degree of autonomy of individual preference, we must then exercise INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 109 ./cache/work_om3af4kn4zewrbbwnsppfxgtty.pdf ./txt/work_om3af4kn4zewrbbwnsppfxgtty.txt