Anscombe was well-known for her stance on what moral issue?
Animal rights
Pacifism
The death penalty
Consequentialism
Answer
Consequentialism, the ethical philosophy championed by Anscombe, asserts that the morality of an action is determined solely by its consequences. Simply put, the rightness or wrongness of an act is judged based on the outcomes it produces, rather than on any inherent moral qualities or rules.
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