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- noun Plural form of
consequentialist .
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For a start, the distinction helps frame a challenge to the traditional assumption that what separates so-called consequentialists and deontologists is that the former but not the latter are committed to the idea that all reasons for action are teleological.
Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative Ridge, Michael 2005
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Democracy, thinks Fish, siding with the "consequentialists" who believe that some forms of speech must be regulated in order to preserve First Amendment goals - nothing less than protecting democracy.
Latest Articles SIERRA VISTA Herald/Review 2010
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The question of why you have chosen to protect certain rights but not others is open to question and criticism, just as it is for consequentialists.
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Many libertarians are, as David Nieporent notes, non-consequentialists and support free markets as a good in itself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most 2010
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The question of why you have chosen to protect certain rights but not others is open to question and criticism, just as it is for consequentialists.
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This assumption may be congenial to consequentialists, who evaluate laws in terms of the resulting social costs and benefits.
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There are flavors of Lockeanism and Kantianism that are consequentialists, but not all.
IPSC: daily double--theory Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Many libertarians are, as David Nieporent notes, non-consequentialists and support free markets as a good in itself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most 2010
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There are flavors of Lockeanism and Kantianism that are consequentialists, but not all.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Anderson: Many libertarians are, as David Nieporent notes, non-consequentialists and support free markets as a good in itself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most 2010
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