Consequentialism
As a general category of ethical or moral theories, consequentialism refers to theories that evaluate rightness or wrongness based exclusively on the consequences or effects of an act...
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Consequentialism
As a name for any ethical theory or for the class of ethical theories that evaluate actions by the value of the consequences of the actions, "consequentialism" thus refe...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush
Thursday said Russian President Vladimir Putin was chosen
"Person of the Year" by a U.S. magazine for being a leader of
consequence, but only time would judge...
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The White House on Sunday disagreed with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's claim that the Iraq war was "the worst foreign policy mistake" in U.S. history.White House press secretary Tony Snow sai...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press:
SOUTH-NORTH SUMMIT (The Korea Herald, Seoul)
A planned summit between President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean
leader Kim Jong-il,...
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The Clinton campaign is playing up the idea that the results of Iowa have historically been an aberration.
"Well, you know Iowa does not have the best track record in determining who the party's n...
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A.A. Gill’s amusingly intemperate book on the English national character, The Angry Island: Hunting the English (S&S, $24), is a classic case of pot/kettle calumny. He thinks the “l...
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out an agreement that Georgia reached with the Army Corps of Engineers for water rights to a major federal reservoir outside Atlanta, handing Alabama and Fl...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday the U.S. may one day propose its own solutions to the most vexing problems dividing Israel and the Palestinians, such as the borders of an eventual i...
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TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Japan cut aid to Myanmar on
Tuesday, a day after the European Union stiffened its sanctions
and U.S. President George W. Bush threatened to follow suit in
response to the...
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ROGERS, Arkansas (Reuters) - President
Bush threatened Monday to impose further U.S. sanctions on
Myanmar's military rulers over their crackdown on protests. "We have sanctioned individuals within...
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PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - Mediators see no hope
of agreement between Serbs and ethnic Albanians on Kosovo's
future status and will propose instead a deal that ignores the
issue of independence,...
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Consequentialism
Consequentialism
Bush: Putin leader of consequence, but to what end?
