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Consequentialism and the World in Time
Author(s) -
Fiocco M. Oreste
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/rati.12002
Subject(s) - consequentialism , morality , epistemology , value (mathematics) , logical consequence , philosophy , computer science , machine learning
Consequentialism is a general approach to understanding the nature of morality that seems to entail a certain view of the world in time . This entailment raises specific problems for the approach. The first seems to lead to the conclusion that every actual act is right – an unacceptable result for any moral theory. The second calls into question the idea that consequentialism is an approach to morality , for it leads to the conclusion that this approach produces a theory whose truth does not depend in any way on the nature of rational beings or value.