Consequentialism - Notable Consequentialists

Notable Consequentialists

  • R. M. Adams (born 1937)
  • Jonathan Baron (born 1944)
  • Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
  • Richard B. Brandt (1910–1997)
  • Milton Friedman (1912–2006)
  • William Godwin (1756–1836)
  • R.M. Hare (1919–2002)
  • John Harsanyi (1920–2000)
  • Brad Hooker
  • Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746)
  • Shelly Kagan
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
  • James Mill (1773–1836)
  • John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
  • G.E. Moore (1873–1958)
  • Mozi (470 BCE – 391 BCE)
  • Philip Pettit (born 1945)
  • Peter Railton (born 1950)
  • Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900)
  • Peter Singer (born 1946)
  • J. J. C. Smart (born 1920)

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