Philosophy A-Level
Consequences as the determinant of moral value
What Consequences as the determinant of moral value means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The view that the consequences of actions determine their moral value, rather than the agent's intentions or the act's intrinsic nature.
Topics that use Consequences as the determinant of moral value
- Normative ethical theories (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Acting from duty
- Conditional versus unconditional commands
- Consequentialism
- Contradiction in conception
- Contradiction in will
- Demandingness and alienation
- Doctrine of the mean
- Eudaimonia as final end and self-sufficient good
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