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- noun A person who adheres to the philosophy of
consequentialism . - adjective Of or relating to
consequentialism or its adherents.
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Examples
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I've heard Stevens described as a consequentialist, meaning he believes in putting himself between the people and the Constitution, which seems wrong, IMO.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Michael Tomasky 2010
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That's what we in the business call a consequentialist argument, Mary, and I think it's a good one.
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Apostate uses the very intellectual tools she criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity.
The Apostate 2009
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This writing warns that it uses the very intellectual tools it criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity.
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While my view of the moral landscape can be classed as "consequentialist," this term comes with fair amount of philosophical baggage, and there are many traditional quibbles with consequentialism that do not apply to my account of morality.
Sam Harris: Toward a Science of Morality Sam Harris 2010
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While my view of the moral landscape can be classed as "consequentialist," this term comes with fair amount of philosophical baggage, and there are many traditional quibbles with consequentialism that do not apply to my account of morality.
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Some anarchists lean on that kind of consequentialist argument; I don’t.
Libertarian Follies 2006
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"consequentialist" Justice John Paul Stevens, who criticized the Citizens United decision in an impassioned 90-page dissent weeks before his 90th birthday, the lessons of Auschwitz will have been lost on us, and the Bill of Rights, the guarantor of our most precious freedoms, will have failed to silence the voices of bigotry … the darkest irony imaginable.
Latest Articles SIERRA VISTA Herald/Review 2010
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John T. Kennedy seems to misapprehend "consequentialist libertarian" -- at least as I use it and see it used.
Of Markets and Ideas, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I guess I'd be a capitalist in that I like liberty for consequentialist reasoning (lots of people flee their crappy countries for prosperity in the U. S, few go in the other direction) and have some distaste or even revulsion for libertines.
Tyler on the Problems of Libertarians, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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