Introduction

As it is well understood, ethical philosophy is that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of moral virtue with a careful evaluation of human actions. As clearly understood, philosophical ethics are distinct from cultural, religion, legal and individual or personal approaches to ethics by constantly looking and carrying out the study of morality via a rational, secular outlook that is grounded in general understanding of human happiness. This philosophical approach to ethics is advantageous in that it keeps away the authoritarian basis of law and religion and more importantly the subjectivity, arbitrariness and irrationality that may distinguish cultural or personal moral views. This paper will describes consequentialism as one type of ethical philosophy.

Averagely, people normally try to determine or analyze the consequences of anything they try or wish to do in order to better measure their moral responsibilities. According to Fieser ( n.d ), consequentialism states that “an action is morally right if the consequences of that action are more favorable than unfavorable”. This simply implies that a correct or acceptable moral behavior is measure primarily by the cost-benefit study of an action’s consequences.

The professed rules require by consequentialist are that we at the beginning should classified both the advantages and disadvantages consequences of an action. If the advantage consequences are greater, then the action can be classified