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PRIORITARIANISM WITHOUT CONSEQUENTIALISM [PDF]

Kriterion, 2018
According to prioritarianism, an influential theory of distributive justice, we have a stronger (non-egalitarian) reason to benefit people the worse off these people are (Parfit 2012).
Yingying Tang, Lei Zhong
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An Epistemic Non-Consequentialism [PDF]

, 2020
Despite the recent backlash against epistemic consequentialism, an explicit systematic alternative has yet to emerge. This paper articulates and defends a novel alternative, Epistemic Kantianism, which rests on a requirement of respect for the truth ...
Sylvan, Kurt L.
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Consequentialize This [PDF]

Ethics, 2011
To 'consequentialise' is to take a putatively non-consequentialist moral theory and show that it is actually just another form of consequentialism. Some have speculated that every moral theory can be consequentialised. If this were so, then consequentialism would be empty; it would have no substantive content.
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Institutional Function Consequentialism

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2019
In this paper, I present a new account of normative ethics that I call Institutional Function Consequentialism. It is a form of indirect consequentialism that focuses on the optimal harmony of institutions rather than on rules, motives or acts.
Krzysztof Saja
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Hooker's ideal code and the sacrifice problem [PDF]

, 2004
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS] A common way of arguing against consequentialism is by a reductio ad absurdum, highlighting the fact that, in certain situations, we would be able to maximize well-being by sacrificing or scapegoating an innocent individual.
Lawlor, R.
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Consequentialist Options [PDF]

, 2014
According to traditional forms of act-consequentialism, an action is right if and only if no other action in the given circumstances would have better consequences.
Suikkanen, Jussi
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Consequences, opportunities, and generalized consequentialism and non-consequentialism [PDF]

Journal of Economic Theory, 2003
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Suzumura, Kotaro, Xu, Yongsheng
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The Rejection of Consequentializing [PDF]

, 2021
Consequentialists say we may always promote the good. Deontologists object: not if that means killing one to save five. “Consequentializers” reply: this act is wrong, but it is not for the best, since killing is worse than letting die.
Muñoz, Daniel
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The Narrow and Broad Scope of Public Rights from the Perspective of Objective Consequentialism [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī
Introduction The concept of public rights is commonly understood as the rights of the general public. However, when scrutinized more closely, this notion becomes somewhat ambiguous, leading to questions and disagreements among legal doctrines and ...
Ali Reza Nasrollahi, Mostafa Mansourian
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The Political Economy of Swift’s Satires and other Prose Works

Œconomia, 2014
Jonathan Swift wrote perceptively about the emerging commercial society in Britain in the early eighteenth century. His particular focus was on the financial revolution and its implications for economic and political stability as well as for shifts of ...
Renee Prendergast
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