Editing Consequentialism (section)

===Ultimate end===
The ''[[ultimate end]]'' is a concept in the moral philosophy of [[Max Weber]], in which individuals act in a faithful, rather than rational, manner.<ref name=":2" />

{{blockquote|We must be clear about the fact that all ethically oriented conduct may be guided by one of two fundamentally differing and irreconcilably opposed maxims: conduct can be oriented to an ''ethic of ultimate ends'' or to an ''ethic of responsibility''. [...] There is an abysmal contrast between conduct that follows the maxim of an ethic of ultimate ends — that is in religious terms, "the Christian does rightly and leaves the results with the Lord" — and conduct that follows the maxim of an ethic of responsibility, in which case one has to give an account of the foreseeable results of one's action.|Max Weber, ''[[Politics as a Vocation]]'', 1918<ref>Originally a speech at Munich University, 1918. Published as "Politik als Beruf," (Munich: Duncker & Humblodt, 1919). Later in Max Weber, ''Gesammelte Politische Schriften'' (Munich, 1921), 396-450. In English: H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, trans. and ed., in ''Max Weber: Essays in Sociology'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1946), 77-128.
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