Sentence examples for consequentialism from inspiring English sources

(See the entry on consequentialism).

Suppose we plug these ideas into consequentialism.

Classic utilitarians held hedonistic act consequentialism.

Is Mohist consequentialism comparable to Western utilitarianism?

Can consequentialism avoid this conclusion?

If consequentialism is absurd or incoherent, as some critics argue, and if deontological restrictions and permissions are mysterious and unfounded, as their opponents argue, then some people might believe moral nihilism for reasons similar to those that led scientists to reject phlogiston.

Partial rule-consequentialism might take many forms.

Such details are discussed in another entry in this encyclopedia (see Hooker on rule-consequentialism).

And act-consequentialism insists upon the decision procedure it would be best for the individual to accept.

The objections just directed at maximising act-consequentialism could be side-stepped by a version of act-consequentialism that did not require maximising the good.

Formulating rule-consequentialism so that it endorses the same code for 1960s Michigan as for 1960s Mississippi is desirable.