Associations to the word «Consequentialism»

Wiktionary

CONSEQUENTIALISM, noun. (ethics) The ethical study of morals, duties and rights with an approach that focuses consequences of a particular action.
CONSEQUENTIALISM, noun. (ethics) The belief that consequences form the basis for any valid moral judgment about an action. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right action is one that produces a good outcome, or consequence.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope