Questions tagged [consequentialism]
Consequentialism is the ethical view that normative properties depend only on consequences.
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Trolley problem variant [closed]
In the standard trolley problem, one must choose between diverting a trolley to kill one person or allowing it to kill several. Consider the following variant.
A trolley is headed toward a split ...
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How can moral realism be logically justified and logically consistent without deontology?
How can moral realism be logically justified and logically consistent without deontology?
Moral realism means that there are objective moral values existing independently from the person.
Deontology ...
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How to determine the degree of immorality of sexual assault in a consequential lens? [closed]
I had a friend (@FishDrowned) pose this question to me:
Which is worse, committing rape or murder?
It seems evident at first that murder is worse, because it leads to the extinguishing of a life, ...
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Anscombe on Christian vs. "modern" morality
In a famous article, Anscombe castigates "Modern Moral Philosophy" (including but not limited to consequentialism) as "quite incompatible with the Hebrew-Christian ethic. For it has ...
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Are there forms of consequentialism besides utilitarianism?
I have always thought of consequentialism and utilitarianism as being the same, but now I wonder, are there forms of consequentialism besides utilitarianism? I would love to see some references by any ...
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Are there integrated philosophical models for moral agents as the cause of intentional or unintentional consequences?
How Even the Buddha Faced Delusion Before Enlightenment?
https://youtu.be/6nnHq6dLwqk?t=624
As the Buddha said there are four courses of action that may be open to us at any particular time:
one ...
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Is there a version of Trolley problem without the actual result being known?
I was making some readings on the Trolley Problem but it caught my attention that most of examples and different versions include, without any intervention, the actual path of the trolley is known to ...
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Is the existence of free will even important?
I don't see the existence/non-existence of free will as meaningful, ethically speaking. I'll explain what I mean.
Let's say we have some agent, and the agent takes an action we think is bad. In a ...
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Are there any "right-now" versions of utilitarianism?
From what I can tell, the conclusive problems that normal utilitarianism faces are (A) the knowability problem, which is whether we could really know the total future impact of our actions, or (B) &...
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Russell and consequentialism
Bertrand Russell is a consequentialist (see here [1] and here [2]: “ Russell, like Moore was what is nowadays known as a consequentialist. He believed that the rightness or otherwise of an act is “in ...
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What's wrong with aretaic consequentialism?
What problems does it face, either as a classification of Buddhism or as meta ethical theory in general?
Another approach [to how to classify Buddhist ethics] is aretaic consequentialism, an indirect ...
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Should a deontic logic informed by Rawlsian/Arendtian considerations use plural quantifiers?
In A Theory of Justice (1999 ed., pg. 24), Rawls says:
The nature of the decision made by the ideal legislator is not, therefore, materially different from that of an entrepreneur deciding how to ...
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Is Anscombe saying that we seem unable to move from 'unreasonable' to 'wrong' because we lack a contemporary understanding of 'virtue'
She refers to "psychology", and not being able to do "philosophy", of contemporary "systems" which, she complains, allows people to commit "injustice".
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Is it possible to argue that the world is good from a theists perspective?
In all Abrahamic religions it is taught that everything that God does is for the good. Is it philosophically possible to argue that our universe is good without arguing from the perspective of a ...
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A consequentialist ethical dilemma?
An agency mandated to protect the community finds itself with an opportunity to conduct an action it believes will prevent a serious violent crime. The action must remain secret however, because the ...
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