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In moral philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one that will ...
Pages in category "Consequentialism" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
John Cook Wilson playing with Prichard's sons. Cook Wilson, the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford, was an important influence on Prichard's views.. Prichard came up to Oxford in 1890 and was elected an Oxford fellow in 1895; it was at Oxford that he was to spend his entire adult life.
In 1959, the Bentham Committee was established under the auspices of University College London with the aim of producing a definitive edition of Bentham's writings. It set up the Bentham Project [120] to undertake the task, and the first volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham was published in 1968.
State consequentialism [1] is a modern minority theoretical interpretation of Mohist consequentialist ethics in Sinology, often intersecting with Chinese Legalism.Sinologist Fraser of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy interprets Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BC, as the "world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a ...
Utilitarianism is a version of consequentialism, which states that the consequences of any action are the only standard of right and wrong. Unlike other forms of consequentialism, such as egoism and altruism, egalitarian utilitarianism considers either the interests of all humanity or all sentient beings equally.
The Columbia Encyclopedia 5th ed. says of him "at times Mill came close to socialism, a theory repugnant to his predecessors." [ citation needed ] He was a proponent of utilitarianism , an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham .
Two-level utilitarianism is a utilitarian theory of ethics according to which a person's moral decisions should be based on a set of moral rules, except in certain rare situations where it is more appropriate to engage in a 'critical' level of moral reasoning.