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This is true of the rhetoric even if, as I argue below, the substance of the reforms was a crude act consequentialism that incapacitates undesirables regardless of desert.
What is and is not pathological in criminal law
I merely want to make clear that IH would seem to presuppose a form of consequentialism about wronging.
INTERESTS, WRONGS, AND THE INJURY HYPOTHESIS
This is because Ratner does not restrict rule consequentialism to the screening of legal norms.
Thick law, thin justice
In fact, it seems as if consequentialism either is only used within climate economics, that is in the form of rather standard cases of cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis, or is criticised for being ill-equipped to deal with situations in which the consequences of our actions are laden with risks and uncertainties (Norcross, 1990; Lenman, 2000).
How much risk ought we to take? Exploring the possibilities of risk-sensitive consequentialism in the context of climate engineering
Therefore, his project combines consequentialism with virtue ethics because he sees each as having something the other requires to make sense of contemporary morality.
Fisher, David. Morality and War: Can War Be Just in the Twenty-First Century?
The use of the MVP constraint might be described as a kind of duty based or deontological ethic rather than utilitarian consequentialism.
Heterodox economics and the biodiversity crisis
Consequentialism demands nothing more stringent than selecting "those rules and institutions that maximize the satisfaction of preferences.
Originalist sin
Highlights are Keown's The Nature of Buddhist Ethics, which makes a strong case for virtue ethics, and Goodman's Consequences of Compassion, which argues for a form of consequentialism.
Buddhist practice as play: a virtue ethical view
consequentialism sort could be tackled by some reasonable compromise.
Making sense of doing wrong: on the justification of compromise decisions
In everyday language, consequentialism might be described by the phrase: the ends justify the means.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Ethics and the Beginnings of Human Life
Writing for an audience with general background knowledge of moral philosophy, particularly with regards to normative theories such as deontology and consequentialism, Athanassoulis (ethics, Keele U.
Virtue ethics
schools of moral philosophy: consequentialism and deontology.
Marks, morals, and markets

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