Consequentializing
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[Revised entry by Douglas W. Portmore on October 30, 2026.
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Act-consequentialism is one of today's leading moral theories. Broadly construed, it holds that the ultimate right-making feature of an act is that its outcome is not evaluatively outranked by that of any available alternative. To evaluatively rank (hereafter, simply "rank") a set of outcomes is to rank them along some evaluative dimension, such as their overall goodness, their goodness for the agen
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Act-consequentialism is one of today's leading moral theories. Broadly construed, it holds that the ultimate right-making feature of an act is that its outcome is not evaluatively outranked by that of any available alternative. To evaluatively rank (hereafter, simply "rank") a set of outcomes is to rank them along some evaluative dimension, such as their overall goodness, their goodness for the agen
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