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    Moral beliefs formed by consequentialist reasoning arise ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The core evaluative component of consequentialist moral beliefs cannot qualify as rationally justified.

    Moral beliefs formed by consequentialist reasoning arise in part from reasoning about the effects of actions.

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    The story taken just this far, whatever its merits, appears to allow the possibility of moral knowledge grounded in consequentialist reasoning. All the data used to draw negative conclusions about deontological moral thought, however, can be interpreted to support a broader debunking argument, since consequentialist thinking requires not only reasoned calculation of the probable effects of alternative actions, but also judgment about whether these effects are good or bad (Kahane 2011, pp. 119–20

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