Whether one outcome outranks another on the resulting act-consequentialist counterpart theory depends solely on whether the act producing it is morally better on the target non-consequentialist theory.
The specific ethical framework or standard being used as the main reference point for evaluation.
act-consequentialism(Contrasted with rule-consequentialism in Russell's ethical theory)
The view that an act is right if and only if the expected consequences of performing it are as good or better than those of any available alternative act — rightness attaches to individual acts, not to rules.
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