The End Justifies the Means Meaning and History

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By souvik Roy

• The End Justifies the Means Meaning and History

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Introduction The End Justifies the Means

• The end justifies the means used for an action
  made by someone is right or wrong. In todays
  society characteristic behaviour is based on the
  belief that ends with the end justifies the
  means. It means the action takes by someone is
  right or wrong.

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The meaning of the end justifies the means

• Achieving the desired outcome can justify prior
  immoral actions. Many philosophers argue that to
  do what is right it is necessary to have a
  morally good reason for acting. Typically,
  identifying morally good reasons involves.
  Appealing to abstract principles.
• some philosophers appeal to pure reason
  (universal moral truths), while others appeal to
  consequences of a certain type. One traditional
  appeal to consequences is based on preference. if
  outcome Y is preferred, then act X (that produces
  Y) is permissible in other words, the end
  justifies the means.

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History of the end justifies the means

• If the outcome of an act is desirable  the act is
  justified regardless of what it involves . TAI
  prince wishing to keep his state is very often
  forced to do evil. Niccolo Machiavelli, The
  Prince. (1532) The origin of the phrase the end
  justifies the means can trace to the ancient
  literati, for example, the Greek playwright
  Sophocles (c. 496-406 BCE) and the Roman poet
  Ovid (43 BCE-17CE). Another well-known proponent
  is Italian statesman Niccolo Machiavelli
  (1469-1527).
• His work The Prince (1532) is a masterpiece of
  practical decision making, predicated on one
  goal to maintain political position as long as
  possible. This end may require instances of
  lying, coercion, and killing, but, if the
  principle is sound, these acts are justified.
  Notably, there is little reason to think desired
  outcomes have anything to do with moral goodness.
  For example, genocide and rape may be desired by
  Some. Thus, as a moral principle.it is widely
  considered plausible and it is often invoked as a
  criticism of views that appear to imply it.

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