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April 19, 2026Ratio0 citationsOpen Access

Fittingness and Consequentialism

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BHBrad Hooker

Key Points

  • The aim is to examine the relationship between consequentialist ethics and the fittingness of various beliefs and attitudes.
  • Analyzed philosophical concepts of fittingness in relation to consequentialist ethics.
  • Considered examples of beliefs and desires to illustrate their fittingness.
  • Discussed implications for moral actions derived from consequentialist principles.
  • Identified discrepancies between fittingness and consequentialist views.
  • Highlighted potential reconciliations between fittingness of attitudes and consequentialist ethics.
  • Clarified what consequentialist ethics can state about fittingness in moral actions.

Abstract

ABSTRACT Some beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires fit their objects. Others do not. This paper considers whether consequentialist ethics can plausibly be reconciled with the fittingness of beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires. Then the paper turns to what consequentialist ethics can consistently say about the fittingness of acts.

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Brad Hooker (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e472a8010ef96374d8e99fhttps://doi.org/10.1111/rati.70029
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