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Utilitarianism

In Our Time

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What Is Consequentialism?

Janet, now we're going to deal with consequentialism and you're going to tell the listeners what that's about. Consequentialism is a development of utilitarianism in that it takes into account distributive justice as well as consequences from an act. How on earth can you judge when you're talking in that sort of dark area? You may well ask. That's my job. Well, if I could answer philosophy, it would be at an end.

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