The Rejection of Consequentializing
Daniel Domínguez Muñoz
Abstract
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. I argue that this reply undercuts the “compellingness” of consequentialism, which comes from an outcome-based view of action that collapses the distinction between killing and letting die.
Topics & Concepts
ConsequentialismOutcome (game theory)Action (physics)Object (grammar)PhilosophyEpistemologyContemporary philosophyLaw and economicsSociologyMathematical economicsEconomicsLinguisticsPhysicsQuantum mechanicsPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentEthics in medical practiceEpistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics