The consequentialist case for liberty isn't perfect. But perfection isn't on the table. So we should go for the least imperfect moral theory—and that's consequentialism. Reply: Kuznicki to Freiman ...

Pojman defines the consequentialist principle as holding that: “the rightness or wrongness of an act is determined by the goodness or badness of the results that flow from it” A more complete ...

Consequentialist theories don't pay direct attention to whether an act is carried out with good or bad intentions; most people think these are highly relevant to moral judgements.

Barbra Clayton and Charles Goodman have recently proposed interpretations of Mahāyāna philosophy that take its fundamental ethical commitments to be consequentialist. There are aspects of the ...

His behavior was as far from consequentialist as you can get. That’s because Jesus is without sin and he never tried to do evil that good could come from it. We do that, not him. He is all light.

Rita Floyd, Towards a Consequentialist Evaluation of Security: Bringing Together the Copenhagen and the Welsh Schools of Security Studies, Review of International Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), ...

And I am inclined to agree that the consequentialist case for gay marriage – that it will change gay culture for the better, that it will strengthen marriage as an institution, etc. – is ...