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The consequentialist analysis cuts both ways, of course.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

This chapter examines three distinct moral framework approaches to normative ethics: consequentialist, deontological, and virtue.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Utilitarianism, the consequentialist approach first advanced by Jeremy Bentham, judges an action to be moral if it provides the greatest good to the greatest number.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Next, there was the consequentialist or utilitarian approach, which is the view that actions should be judged as right or wrong based on the extent they increase human well-being.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2019

McMahan is what philosophers call a consequentialist, which means that, morally speaking, one judges conduct by its consequences.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018