Examples of consequentialism

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The case for separability as a requirement of consequentialism is straightforward in my opinion.
Mediated by the appropriate understanding of character traits, consequentialism and genuine friendship are, conceptually speaking, perfectly compatible.
Consequentialism requires that one should choose that plan which realizes the best possible outcomes.
As these points suggest, the person-based intuition marks badly needed common ground between at least some forms of consequentialism and various non-consequentialist approaches.
But then, perhaps the argument in the appendix shows a collapse at least to an agent-relative kind of consequentialism.
How are we to interpret this disavowal of consequentialism?
One problem is that, arguably, sophisticated consequentialism is too sophisticated for its own good.
However, we cannot invoke considerations of consequentialism when we have to decide how we should decide.
However, if our knowledge of mental states is ascriptive, this form of objective consequentialism may make excessive demands.
Objective consequentialism seems to me a coherent and interesting position.
She does this, first, by raising serious objections to traditional virtue ethical theories and, second, by demonstrating how well consequentialism can account for virtue evaluation.
But this faces a different difficulty: it makes consequentialism true by definition.
So far, therefore, we have: utilitarianism = consequentialism + welfarism + sum-ranking.
We could get different versions of satisficing consequentialism by giving the existential quantifier narrow scope.
However, this way of reasoning seems intuitively plausible to me, as well as compatible with consequentialism.
I have argued that a new version of the charge that consequentialism and friendship are incompatible is available.
According to anti-reductionist consequentialism, action optimality and rightness are distinct properties, and a thing has the latter because it has the former.
That discussion will also allow us to see the significance of the distinction between reductionist and anti-reductionist versions of consequentialism.
According to objective consequentialism, an agent acts wrongly (and usually blameworthiness goes along with acting wrongly) when the consequences of her action are sub-optimal.

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