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1. Consequentialism: Consequentialism or Teleologic ethics or "ends justify the means" is the philosophical view that the moral value of an act is to be judged on its consequences, rather than the act itself. Consequentialism is therefore opposed to deontological ethics. [100%] 2023-11-23 [Morality]
2. Consequentialism: Consequentialism is a philosophical theory summarized as "the ends justify the means." Consequentialists believe that any action can be right or wrong, depending on the context of the situation. For example, killing an innocent man can be right if it ... [100%] 2023-02-24 [Philosophy]
3. Consequentialism: In ethical philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint ... (Philosophy) [100%] 2023-02-16 [Meta-ethics] [Normative ethics]...
4. Consequentialism: Consequentialism : The belief that the expected consequences of decisions should be the sole criterion of decision-making (in contrast to deontology). [100%] 2022-05-27
5. Consequentialism: A consequentialist moral theory defines normative properties such as rightness, praiseworthiness, and virtuousness, in terms of the promotion of valuable states of affairs (as in normative ethics). Since normative theories tend to focus on the rightness of actions, a consequentialist ... [100%] 2023-02-04
6. Consequentialism: Consequentialism, as its name suggests, is simply the view that normative properties depend only on consequences. This historically important and still popular theory embodies the basic intuition that what is best or right is whatever makes the world best in ... (Philosophy) [100%] 2022-01-09
7. Rule Consequentialism: The theory of morality we can call full rule-consequentialism selects rules solely in terms of the goodness of their consequences and then claims that these rules determine which kinds of acts are morally wrong. George Berkeley was arguably the ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-07-23
8. Negative consequentialism: Negative consequentialism is a version of consequentialism, which is "one of the major theories of normative ethics." Like other versions of consequentialism, negative consequentialism holds that moral right and wrong depend only on the value of outcomes. That is, for ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-05-26
9. State consequentialism: State consequentialism, also known as Mohist consequentialism, is a consequentialist ethical theory which evaluates the moral worth of an action based on how it contributes to the basic goods of a state, through social order, material wealth, and population growth ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-07-10
10. Negative consequentialism: Negative consequentialism is a version of consequentialism, which is "one of the major theories of normative ethics." Like other versions of consequentialism, negative consequentialism holds that moral right and wrong depend only on the value of outcomes. That is, for ... (Version of consequentialism) [70%] 2023-12-20 [Consequentialism] [Ethical theories]...