Morality, Rules, and Consequences : : A Critical Reader / / Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, Dale E. Miller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hooker, Brad,; Mason, Elinor,; Miller, Dale E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Haslett, D. W.,; Hooker, Brad,; Kagan, Shelly,; Levy, Sanford S.,; Lyons, David,; Mason, Elinor,; Miller, Dale E.,; Montague, Phillip,; Mulgan, Tim,; Pettit, Philip,; Powers, Madison,; Riley, Jonathan,; Shaw, William H.,; Smith, Michael,; Thomas, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

What determines whether an action is right or wrong? One appealing idea is that a moral code ought to contain a number of rules that tell people how to behave and that are simple and few enough to be easily learned. Another appealing idea is that the consequences of actions matter, often more than a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Between Act and Rule: The Consequentialism of G. E. Moore
• 2 The Educational Equivalence of Act and Rule Utilitarianism
• 3 Defending Rule Utilitarianism
• 4 Values, Obligations, and Saving Lives
• 5 The Moral Opacity of Utilitarianism
• 6 Global Consequentialism
• 7 Evaluative Focal Points
• 8 Hooker's Use and Abuse of Reflective Equilibrium
• 9 Consequentialism and the Subversion of Pluralism
• 10 Why Rule Consequentialism is not Superior to Ross-style Pluralism
• 11 Ruling Out Rule Consequentialism
• 12 Reflective Equilibrium and Rule Consequentialism
• 13 Rule Consequentialism and the Value of Friendship
• Notes on Contrihutors
• Index