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See my comment here. Moral philosophies in general are consequentialist, in the sense that they do consider consequences.
Literally just google it and the top result says:
Consequentialism asserts consequences are all that matters. Disagreeing with that assertion doesn't mean ignoring consequences entirely, nor does considering consequences necessarily mean you cannot consider anything else.
You're familiar with timeless decision theory right? That's deontology, not consequentialism.
Moral theories tend to merge at the complex end imo. In practice a timeless decision theory supporter will not be commonly referred to as a deontologist, even though his theory is on the surface similar to the categorical imperative, with the law being less universal (eg, the action of lying is divided instead of being considered in whole, and allowed/ordered in the particular nazi cases).
The common understading of deontology is absolutism : “Absolutists assert that there are exceptionless moral rules or intrinsically wrong actions that are absolutely wrong and may never be performed, whatever the consequences. “
The TDT guy (for the record, close to my own position) can, and will, claim that his theory results in the best outcome (as opposed to doing your duty for duty’s sake), making him a consequentialist again, for real this time.
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