Sentences with word «consequentialist»

His ultimate answer is cast in terms of consequentialist moral reasoning, by which what counts as determinative in the moral argument is the outcome.

Consequentialist approaches say we should aim to maximize the greatest good for the greatest number, even if this means causing some harm — like killing one person to save five.

The path to a productive discussion about ABS, it turns out, is one based only on consequentialist reasoning supported by quantifiable evidence, but which rejects any comparison of either the risks or the benefits of ABS with those of other systems.

They also explore its deontologic and consequentialist dimensions.

In a bold recasting of Christian ethics, Jean Porter urges us to abandon the false alternatives of deontological (Kantian) vs. consequentialist (utilitarian) morality, and learn from modern moral philosophy that moral rules require judgment.

2) I'm assuming that Conor doesn't use the standard of «loyalty so long as we are on a team» in his private life, so is the change in stance here entirely a result of consequentialist concerns?

The opposite of these hard - liners are the prudential utilitarians or consequentialist thinkers.

William Muehl argues for the rejecting - nonpunitive position from a more consequentialist stance.

That is why liberal Protestant denominations are tearing themselves apart when they connive in adopting a utilitarian or consequentialist sexual morality ¯ for these churches are, whether they admit it or not, unmooring themselves from their constitutional foundation, which is ineluctably based in the charter of the Christian Scriptures.

And, yes, I agree that there could be a persuasive consequentialist «peace over justice» case for such an exit route in these or similar cases, depending on the specific context.

As such, fiscal conservatism today exists somewhere between classical liberalism and contemporary consequentialist political philosophies, and is often influenced by coinciding levels of social conservatism.

Although Shane O'Mara agrees «with the moral, ethical, and legal case against torture,» his argument against it occurs within an empirical, consequentialist framework, not an ethical one.

In the standard consequentialist view of climate ethics, the question of whether it is ethically justified intentionally to shift the planet to a warmer or cooler climate depends on an assessment of the costs and benefits of the new state compared to the old one.

Across 9 experiments, with more than 2,400 participants, we found that people who took an absolute approach to the dilemmas (refusing to kill an innocent person, even when this maximized the greater good) were seen as more trustworthy than those who advocated a more flexible, consequentialist approach.

«We conclude that Medicaid policy allocates access to elective tubal sterilization differently, based on source of payment and gender, which violates health care justice in both its deontologic and consequentialist dimensions,» said senior author Frank A. Chervenak, MD, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University / New York - Presbyterian Hospital.

Students wrote responses to dilemmas and demonstrated understanding of consequentialist, utilitarian, and strong - rights theories of justice.

Our culture is clearly wrong in its consequentialist assumption that good results can redeem morally blameworthy acts.

From the passage quoted above, it might seem that the pope is objecting to all this on the consequentialist grounds that it often results in embryo killing.

«Your analysis is very impressive,» we might say to the Story - substitute proponents, «just as the consequentialists» analysis was impressive.

It is common, and for certain purposes quite helpful, to contrast the approaches of Bentham and Kant, to see in them the two quite different normative paths — consequentialist and deontological — modern moral philosophy has taken.

Although many concur in categorizing any ethical system based on process metaphysics as teleological or consequentialist, recent writings have gone beyond this, attempting to demonstrate the affinity between process ethics...

This makes Harris a consequentialist and places him squarely in the utilitarian tradition of John Stuart Mill who labored to give a qualitative account of the kinds of goods at play in the maximization of human happiness.

Perhaps I am a consequentialist, for I want an ethic that successfully places the love of children first and foremost, an ethic that orients all other concerns regarding reproductive technology or parental fulfillment toward this greater end.

I'm a consequentialist - i only care about what works.

However a game unconstrained by simulating our preconceived power hierarchies and able to parse unusual combinations could allow for exploration of novel political states; some of which might conceivably be better than our existing society (as measured against a given dentological / consequentialist / aretaic / hedonic yardstick).

The «consequentialist» dimension judges the morality of an action on its consequences.

The feebleness of ethics may be conceded in the case of consequentialist and duty ethics, but what about virtue ethics?

As a legal realist would be quick to point out, picking a statute's purpose, selecting the level of generality at which to describe the purpose, and making the consequentialist judgment about which interpretation promotes that purpose can be a deeply political and policy - laden endeavor, one that looks a lot more like making law than finding it.

I've always been a «consequentialist,» thinking of the possible worst - case scenarios before I make a decision.