Consequentialism says that right or wrong depend on the consequences of an act, and that the more good consequences are produced, the better the act. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy gives a ...

It finally hit me what all these conservatives — especially conservative Christians — defending Trump, despite more and more evidence of his propensity for sexual assault, remind me of: apologists for ...

Ross Douthat does a very fair job of summarizing the Regnerus study on outcomes of gay parenting, and how that study can plausibly be used as the basis for arguments either for or against gay marriage ...

The Catholic world has heard a lot on the errors of consequentialism over the past few years. My friend and colleague Mark Shea, in his characteristically subtle way ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 173, No. 3 (March 2016), pp. 711-731 (21 pages) In his recent book, The Dimensions of Consequentialism, ...

"I like him. He likes me," President Trump said of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a recent campaign rally. "We would go back and forth, and then we fell in love." CBS journalist Leslie Stahl ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We best understand Rule Consequentialism as a theory of pattern-based reasons, since it claims that we have reasons to perform some action ...

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Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens are co-hosts of The Minefield on RN. Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor of Politics at La Trobe University. Refugees will go to extraordinary lengths in order to come to ...

Really the crucial part of Greg Mankiw’s recent paper “Defending the One Percent” is his attack on what he rather loosely terms “utilitarianism.” In essence, Mankiw wants to say that redistributive ...