{"id":231356,"date":"2023-03-16T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=231356"},"modified":"2023-03-16T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:54:59","slug":"teleological-ethics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/teleological-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequentialism or Teleological Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Consequentialism is a perspective in moral philosophy which bases morality on the consequence of human actions and not on the actions themselves. The <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">consequences of one&#8217;s conduct are the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. The more good consequences an act produces, the better or more right that act is. Consequentialist teaches that people should do whatever produces the greatest amount of goodness for greatest number.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Different forms of consequentialism differ over what the good thing is that should be maximised.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Utilitarianism\u202fstates that people should maximise human welfare or well-being<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hedonism\u202fstates that people should maximise human pleasure<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consequentialism is a perspective in moral philosophy which bases morality on the consequence of human actions and not on the actions themselves. The consequences of one&#8217;s conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. The more good consequences an act produces, the better or more right that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/teleological-ethics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consequentialism or Teleological Ethics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10350,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231356","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}