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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Treatise 2: Virtue or Moral Good' and 'Personal Identity and Memory'

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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

6246	My action is not made good by a good effect, if I did not foresee and intend it [Hutcheson]
	Full Idea: No good effect, which I did not actually foresee and intend, makes my action morally good.
	From: Francis Hutcheson (Treatise 2: Virtue or Moral Good [1725], §III.XII)
	A reaction: This is one of the parents of utilitarianism repudiating pure consequentialism. Bentham sharply divided the action (which is consequentialist) from the person (who has useful intentions, but is not particulary important); this division is misleading.