A set of ethical beliefs based on the goodness or badness of consequences, whether actual, intended or predicted. For purposes here, restricted to consequences to individuals, in contrast to utilitarian ethics. Open to change according to empirical observation of outcomes (hence 'evidence based ethics').
End-based ethical systems or what is called consequentialism. An action's worth is determined by the consequences. ( telos means end)
Ethical theories which establish the rightness or wrongness of a given act by consideration of the consequences. see consequentialism, Utilitarianism
A species of axiological ethics which makes the determination of the rightness of an action wholly dependent on an estimate of its actual or probable conduciveness to some end or of its actual or probable productiveness, directly or indirectly, of the maximum good. E.g., utilitarianism.
The evaluation of right and wrong based on the social benefits derived by the outcome of an action without regard for the intention of the action. Teleological = results.
from the Greek "telos" means goal, end or purpose, gives moral priority to good ends and consequences of human conduct over the means or process by which they are obtained. No behavior is inherently right or wrong. Right means are determined solely by their consequences. Contrasted with Deontological Ethics (non-consequentialism), the test of all moral laws, duties and rights depends solely on their ability to achieve good ends. Ethics is a kind of moral cost/benefit analysis to discover whatever option maximizes the net expectable good (good minus bad). Contemporary writers call this type of moral reasoning "Consequentialism."
Teleological ethics refers to ethical propositions which are aimed at a certain "end" (telos in Greek, hence "teleology".)
