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NewLearningGuide School of Social Sciences and Psychology Disciplines of Social Sciences LEARNING GUIDE © University of Western Sydney, 2012 Template Designer: Adelma M. Hills Template Author: Martin Daly 101555-Ethics in the Social Sciences 2013-Autumn TABLE OF CONTENTS UNIT WEEKLY SCHEDULE ....................................................................................................... 2 1.0 UNIT DETAILS, STAFFING, AND HELP ................................................................................ 3 1.1 Unit details ........................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 What to do if you need help? ............................................................................................ 3 2.0 UNIT CONTENT ................................................................................................................ 4 2.1 Handbook summary .......................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Unit content ...................................................................................................................... 4 2.3 Mode of delivery ............................................................................................................... 4 2.4 Attendance requirements and workload .......................................................................... 4 2.5 Changes to unit in response to student feedback ............................................................. 4 3.0 UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES ............................................................................................ 4 4.0 HOW DO ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENTS RELATE TO LEARNING OUTCOMES? ................. 5 5.0 ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW ................................................................................................. 5 6.0 TEXTBOOK(S) AND...

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Assessment 2 
Consequentialist and Non-consequentialist views of morality 
The theories of morality can be broadly divided into two types – consequentialist theories 
of morality and nonconsequentialist theories of morality. The consequentialist views of morality 
fundamentally maintain that “the consequences of an action are all that matter for the purposes of 
moral evaluation” (Shaw, n.d.). In other words a “consequentialist theory judges the rightness or 
wrongness of an action based on the consequences that action has” (Holsinger, 2011). The 
nonconsequentialist views of morality, on the other hand, differ from the consequentialist views 
because according to the nonconsequentialist views of morality “consequences should not enter 
into our moral judgments. Actions are to be judged right or good in accordance with other 
criteria (intuitions, divine command, etc.)” (“Chapter 3 – Nonconsequentialist Theories of 
Morality and Virtue Ethics”, n.d.). In other words the nonconsequentialist views of morality state 
that only individual acts and situations count morally because generalization from rules and 
principles can be fallacious as every situation is different from other (“Chapter 3 – 
Nonconsequentialist Theories of Morality and Virtue Ethics”, n.d.). To explain the difference 
between the consequentialist view of morality and the nonconsequentialist view of morality let 
us take an example of a politician donating a huge amount of money for the development of a 
certain community so that in lieu he can receive the votes of all the members of the concerned 
community in the forthcoming election.

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