Consequentialism Quotes

• Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it can emulate the requirements of other moral theories when it is the case that acting on those theories would improve the world.

  Dale Jamieson

  Real, Pensamiento, Ideas

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• What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many of the objections to Consequentialism purport to show that Consequentialism requires us to make the world a stinking, bloody mess. The ubiquity of these kinds of arguments shows you just how unseriously many of the critics take Consequentialism.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ubiquity, World, Way

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• El problema que veo en el utilitarismo, o en cualquier forma de consecuencialismo, no es que obtenga respuestas erróneas a las cuestiones morales. Creo que casi cualquier teoría moral, elaborada con inteligencia y aplicada con buen juicio, obtendría prácticamente los mismos resultados que cualquier otra.

  Allen W. Wood

  Pensamiento, Respuestas Equivocadas, Moral

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• Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent of, according to some critics. While all these families of views have been victimized in these ways, Consequentialists have gotten the worst of it. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Kant and Aristotle are acknowledged to be great philosophers, and we tend to read the greats sympathetically, while Consequentialism is a family of views not rooted in the work of a single great man to whom this kind of deference is owed.

  Dale Jamieson

  Men, Thinking, Views

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• The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.

  G. E. M. Anscombe

  Moving, Responsibility, Thinking

  G.E.M. Anscombe (2011). “Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe”, p.190, Andrews UK Limited

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• The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too smart to fully embrace Consequentialism. All of these great traditions in moral philosophy express strands of our moral consciousness and they should all be treated as research programs rather than as fully determinate views that can be leveled by a counterexample or by a clever argument.

  Dale Jamieson

  Clever, Philosophy, Smart

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• Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing, and that the principle should be applied to individual acts. Indeed, this version is often called "classical utilitarianism" and attributed to Bentham and sometimes even to Mill. Rather than a "classical" view it is a recent construction foisted on to the tradition.

  Dale Jamieson

  Views, Principles, Maximizing

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