Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, The electrician's guide EAN: 9780357366554

EAN: 9780357366554

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Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, The electrician's guide EAN: 9780357366554Consequentialism is a major moral theory in contemporary philosophy: it is the view that the only thing that matters when making moral decisions is the outcome of those decisions. Consequentialists hold that to morally assess an act, we must first evaluate and rank the various ways that things could turn out depending on whether it or some alternative act is performed. Whether we should perform that act thus depends on how its outcome ranks relative