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The 47 pages that link to Consequentialism, each with the reason it gives.

• UtilitarianismNarrower topic: Utilitarianism belongs to this broader family of consequence-based theories.

• Virtue ethicsCompared with: It makes outcomes decisive, whereas virtue ethics gives character and practical judgment a central role.

• Just war theoryCompared with: Consequentialist judgment can conflict with rules protecting noncombatants regardless of outcomes.

• Environmental ethicsRelated: Assesses environmental choices by the harms and benefits they produce.

• DeontologyCompared with: It contrasts with deontology by making consequences the ultimate basis of right action.

• EthicsBroader topic: It judges conduct by the outcomes ethical choices produce.

• Ethics of careCompared with: Care ethics resists reducing moral judgment to aggregate outcomes alone.

• Buddhist ethicsCompared with: Buddhist judgments may consider consequences while also emphasizing intention and mental cultivation.

• Kantian ethicsCompared with: Kantian ethics rejects consequences as the fundamental basis of moral rightness.

• Moral luckCompared with: Its outcome-focused assessments make resultant moral luck especially pressing.

• Sexual ethicsRelated: Outcome-based approaches assess sexual conduct through effects on welfare, risk, and harm.

• Retributive justiceCompared with: Retribution grounds punishment in desert, not only in its future effects.

• Moral educationRelated: Considering consequences is one way moral education develops judgment about competing choices.

• MohismNarrower topic: Mohist arguments often assess practices by whether they benefit people and the state.

• Moral dilemmaCompared with: It resolves some conflicts by comparing outcomes, unlike approaches that treat duties as constraints.

• VirtueCompared with: It locates moral assessment in consequences rather than virtuous character.

• Trolley problemRelated: It typically favors diverting the trolley when doing so saves more lives.

• Moral naturalismRelated: Naturalist theories often connect moral value to natural facts about outcomes and welfare.

• Moral particularismCompared with: Its general criterion illustrates how a moral theory can aim to govern cases uniformly.

• Moral philosophyBroader topic: It makes outcomes the primary basis for judging an action.

• Doctrine of double effectCompared with: Unlike the doctrine, it generally does not treat intended and foreseen harms as morally distinct.

• ResponsibilityCompared with: It can assign responsibility chiefly by foreseeable effects rather than duties or intentions.

• Moral absolutismCompared with: It can permit breaking a rule when doing so produces better outcomes.

• Documentary ethicsNarrower topic: Potential social benefits and foreseeable harms often compete in documentary decisions.

• Normative ethicsRelated: It judges conduct by outcomes rather than by rules or motives alone.

• Peter SingerRelated: It supplies the basic structure of Singer’s arguments about reducing suffering.

• Applied ethicsRelated: It guides decisions where outcomes and harms must be compared.

• Henry SidgwickNarrower topic: His defense of utility became a major model for consequentialist moral reasoning.

• LyingRelated: It can permit a lie when expected benefits outweigh harms.

• MoziCompared with: Mozi’s appeal to benefit resembles outcome-based ethics, though his standards also invoke Heaven and social order.

• Thomas NagelCompared with: Nagel criticizes consequentialism when it discounts personal commitments and the agent’s standpoint.

• Categorical imperativeCompared with: It contrasts with Kant’s account, which judges maxims by principle rather than expected results.

• Religious ethicsCompared with: Its outcome-based tests can differ from religious duties or prohibitions.

• Jewish ethicsCompared with: It contrasts with rule-based reasoning, while Jewish decisions can also weigh foreseeable harms.

• Act utilitarianismNarrower topic: Act utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory, making outcomes its basis for rightness.

• Alasdair MacIntyreCompared with: MacIntyre rejects accounts that make outcomes, rather than virtues and practices, the basis of morality.

• EthicsRelated: It judges conduct by the outcomes an ethical choice produces.

• Rule utilitarianismNarrower topic: The theory inherits consequentialism’s outcome-based standard but applies it to rules.

• Environmental philosophyRelated: Environmental policy often weighs ecological and human consequences through this framework.

• MoralityRelated: It treats outcomes as the decisive basis for moral rightness.

• Sanctity of lifeCompared with: Consequentialist reasoning may permit ending or risking life when outcomes justify it.

• De OfficiisCompared with: Cicero rejects treating beneficial outcomes as sufficient justification when conduct violates justice.

• Ethical dilemmaCompared with: It may resolve a dilemma by prioritizing the choice with the best expected results.

• G. E. M. AnscombeCompared with: Anscombe’s 1958 critique helped establish consequentialism as a target of modern moral philosophy.

• Good and evilRelated: It locates moral goodness primarily in what actions bring about.

• History of ethicsRelated: Its modern formulations mark a major shift toward outcome-based justification.

• Secular moralityRelated: It offers a secular way to assess actions through their effects on well-being.