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Open systems models are characterized by three input, throughput, and output subsystem stages--with feedback linkage as a fourth stage equivalent--through which resources pass in a continual transformation exchange with their environments. This ongoing process enables system entities--individuals, groups, organizations, et cetera--to maintain their survival in dynamic equilibrium. In an open systems model of ethics, the corresponding subsystem stages or components are ethical types or "schools" of philosophy: Idealism, Equity, and Utility--with communications or control as a fourth stage equivalent (Appendix, Figure 1). Idealism and Utilitarianism are traditionally recognized as non-consequentialist (input) and consequentialist (output) schools, respectively. 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