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3. Dez. 2023 · consequentialism ( countable and uncountable, plural consequentialisms) ( ethics) The ethical study of morals, duties and rights with an approach that focuses consequences of a particular action or cause. ( ethics) The belief that consequences form the basis for any valid moral judgment about an action. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint ...
Negative consequentialism is a version of consequentialism, which is "one of the major theories of normative ethics ." [1] Like other versions of consequentialism, negative consequentialism holds that moral right and wrong depend only on the value of outcomes. [2] That is, for negative and other versions of consequentialism, questions such as ...
Typically, a justification of the state explains why the state should exist, and what a legitimate state should or should not be able to do. Consequentialist justifications of the state focus on the results that are achieved when certain institutions are put in place. They are based on consequentialist theories such as utilitarianism.
Pages in category "Consequentialism". The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Consequentialism.
Consequentialism is the class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (or omission from acting) is one that will produce a good outcome, or consequence.
The state consequentialism wikipedia article was made in 2012. Chris Fraiser discusses Mohist consequentialism, but his 2016 book , The Philosophy of the Mòzĭ: The First Consequentialists. It presents an alternative interpretation, Dao Consequentialism, represented by Tao Jiang (2021) as the second category of Mohist consequentialism.
In Modern Moral Philosophy, Anscombe coined the term "consequentialism" to mark a distinction between theories of English moral philosophers from Sidgwick onward ("consequentialists") and theories of earlier philosophers. [5] [6] According to Anscombe, the modern "consequentialist" moral philosophers were distinguished from the earlier ones by ...
