If the target non-consequentialist theory ranks some permissible acts as morally better than others, the Footian Procedure ranks their outcomes correspondingly higher by the same degree.
An ethical theory that judges actions based on something other than their outcomes—like following rules, duties, or virtues.
Permissible acts(as used in ethics)
Actions that are allowed or acceptable according to a moral rule or theory—not forbidden, and not required, but okay to do.
Philippa Foot(as a key neo-Aristotelian thinker)
A 20th-century philosopher who revived Aristotelian ethics and argued that morality is grounded in facts about human nature and what helps us flourish.
consequentialist(Shared position of Russell and Moore)
One who believes that the rightness or otherwise of an act is in some way dependent on consequences.
But, for now, let us examine why the notational consequentializer thinks that the first premise is true. It’s because they have high hopes for what’s known as the Footian Procedure (Portmore 2011: 112), a procedure for generating an act-consequentialist counterpart theory for any plausible target non-consequentialist theory. To follow this procedure, we simply combine act-consequentialism’s view that an act is permissible if and only if its outcome is not outranked by that of any available alter