Consequentialism (Including Utilitarianism)

Philip Pettit

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.63011-8

Consequentialism (Including Utilitarianism)

Philip Pettit

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Consequentialism is the theory that the way to tell whether a particular choice is the right choice for an agent to make or to have made is to look at the relevant consequences of the decision: to look at the relevant effects of the decision on the world. It gives rise to many questions. Some are general questions as to how more precisely the doctrine can be defined and defended, and as to what the main forms of opposition are. Others are in-house questions that go to matters of detail in the specification of the theory. This article offers an overview of positions on those questions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	679-683
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
ISBN (Print)	9780080970868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.63011-8
State	Published - Mar 26 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Social Sciences

Keywords

Decision Making, Psychology of
Utilitarian Social Thought, History of
Utilitarianism: Contemporary Applications

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