<ethics> any position in ethics which claims that the moral rightness or wrongness of actions depends on their consequences and therefore that moral decisions should be made on the basis of the expected outcome or consequences of the actions involved. pragmatism and utilitarianism are common forms of consequentialism. Consequentialist theories in ethics tend to be varieties of altruism, although haedonism can be represented as a coherent form of consequentialism. The term has some connotations of subjectivism, of deciding according to what the individual merely thinks is expedient. "Consequentialism" is a technical term in philosophy and is not used in popular discourse, where pragmatism and utilitarianism are more common. (References from altruism, pragmatism, and utilitarianism.)
Based on [The Ism Book] and [Ethics Glossary]
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