Sentence examples for of good consequences from inspiring English sources

Plenty of good consequences follow from this.

Within a status approach rights are not means for the promotion of good consequences.

They are rather, in Nozick's phrase, side constraints on the pursuit of good consequences (Nozick 1974, 29).

Utilitarianism treats the good as prior to and independent of the right or duty defining duty as the promotion of good consequences.

Respecting Lockean rights is deemed morally valuable for its own sake, not merely for the sake of good consequences it might bring about.

A reason for Rawls to defend this coordination requirement is that, in most cases, it serves a more important concern, namely, the achievement of good consequences.

He found a heap of family letters, many going back to the Wars of the Roses three centuries earlier, and, as he wrote to the late Earl's executors, "of good consequence in history".

They argue that a set of moral rules selected because of the good consequences of their adoption should include a rule that allows and indeed requires one to prevent disaster even if that means breaking some other moral rule.

Such actions are permitted, not just in the weak sense that there is no obligation not to do them, but also in the strong sense that one is permitted to do them even though they are productive of less good consequences than their alternatives (Moore 2008).

Robert Young offers a possible rationale for this point of view in more abstract terms: Those who conceive of morality exclusively, or a least predominantly, within a traditional (deontological) framework claim, that doing something harmful is intrinsically morally wrong – that is, is morally wrong in itself, regardless of any good consequences it may produce.

For as we shall now explore, the strengths of deontological approaches lies: (1) in their categorical prohibition of actions like the killing of innocents, even when good consequences are in the offing; and (2) in their permission to each of us to pursue our own projects free of any constant demand that we shape those projects so as to make everyone else well off.