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Ends and Means: A Modern Moral Discourse

Author(s) Dr. Samsul Alam Choudhury
Country India
Abstract The debate over ends and means has continued to be a major issue in moral philosophy, posing persistent queries regarding ethical coherence, rational agency, and moral justification. This argument centers on whether morally admirable goals can excuse the employment of dubious or detrimental methods or whether the morality of deeds must be evaluated separately from their results. This article revisits the ends-means debate and critically analyzes traditional and modern philosophical stances that have influenced the conversation, such as virtue-based, teleological, and deontological approaches to moral reasoning.
While deontological viewpoints concentrate on the inherent moral character of methods and frequently premise moral limitations in duty, rights, or moral laws, teleological theories highlight the importance of ends and consequences in judging moral actions. By emphasizing moral character and practical skill in matching methods with morally admirable aims, virtue ethics, on the other hand, provides a mediating framework.
The article makes the case that deeper philosophical differences regarding moral value, agency, and accountability are the root cause of the ongoing conflict between ends and means. The paper shows that neither the unthinking acceptance of instrumental justification nor the absolutist rejection of consequential reasoning offer an acceptable solution by examining important arguments and counterarguments. Rather than viewing ends and methods as hierarchically antagonistic, the article offers a complex philosophical approach in which they are viewed as morally interdependent. This viewpoint allows for contextual moral assessment while maintaining moral integrity. Clarifying the ends-means problem's conceptual underpinnings and reiterating its ongoing significance within normative ethical theory are the goals of the reevaluation.
Keywords Ends and Means; Moral Justification; Normative Ethics; Teleology; Deontology.
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Published In Volume 6, Issue 1, January-February 2024
Published On 2024-01-10
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