| 23395 | Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden] |
| 1562 | It is right to lie to someone, to get them to take medicine they are reluctant to take [Anon (Diss)] |
| 265 | An action is only just if it is performed by someone with a just character and outlook [Plato] |
| 109 | Clearly perfect conduct will involve both good intention and good action [Aristotle] |
| 5877 | We judge people from their deeds because we cannot see their choices (which matter more) [Aristotle] |
| 22555 | The function of good men is to confer benefits [Aristotle] |
| 1851 | Good applies to goals, just as truth applies to ideas in the mind [Aquinas] |
| 19366 | You can't assess moral actions without referring to the qualities of character that produce them [Leibniz] |
| 6233 | A person isn't good if only tying their hands prevents their mischief, so the affections decide a person's morality [Shaftesbury] |
| 6246 | My action is not made good by a good effect, if I did not foresee and intend it [Hutcheson] |
| 23674 | If an attempted poisoning results in benefits, we still judge the agent a poisoner [Reid] |
| 3712 | A good will is not good because of what it achieves [Kant] |
| 3725 | The good of an action is in the mind of the doer, not the consequences [Kant] |
| 6197 | Morality involves duty and respect for law, not love of the outcome [Kant] |
| 3767 | Motive shows the worth of the agent, but not of the action [Mill] |
| 2872 | In the earliest phase of human history only consequences mattered [Nietzsche] |
| 24094 | Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche] |
| 4509 | Utilitarians prefer consequences because intentions are unknowable - but so are consequences! [Nietzsche] |
| 23529 | Conduct is not isolated from its effect on the moral code [Hart,HLA] |
| 22458 | Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot] |
| 22460 | Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot] |
| 22461 | Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot] |
| 22464 | The idea of a good state of affairs has no role in the thought of Aristotle, Rawls or Scanlon [Foot] |
| 22457 | If the aim is good outcomes, why are killings worse than deaths? [Scheffler, by Foot] |
| 22411 | For a consequentialist massacring 7 million must be better than massacring 7 million and one [Williams,B] |
| 22408 | Consequentialism assumes that situations can be compared [Williams,B] |
| 4120 | It is an error of consequentialism to think we just aim at certain states of affairs; we also want to act [Williams,B] |
| 5122 | Maybe consequentialism is a critique of ordinary morality, rather than describing it [Harman] |
| 3785 | You can't separate acts from the people performing them [Glover] |
| 6698 | Negative consequences are very hard (and possibly impossible) to assess [Graham] |
| 23097 | What matters for morality is the effects of action, not the psychological causes [Kekes] |
| 7590 | Consequentialism emphasises value rather than obligation in morality [Scruton] |
| 4337 | Teenagers are often quite wise about ideals, but rather stupid about consequences [Hursthouse] |
| 6853 | Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R] |