05235nam 2200721Ia 450 991078032920332120230922183647.00-19-159770-80-19-152026-81-281-98924-X9786611989248(CKB)111087313312324(EBL)3053270(OCoLC)316064825(SSID)ssj0000087427(PQKBManifestationID)11988268(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087427(PQKBWorkID)10053185(PQKB)10865065(SSID)ssj0000299246(PQKBManifestationID)12099240(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299246(PQKBWorkID)10237386(PQKB)11786890(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075604(MiAaPQ)EBC3053270(Au-PeEL)EBL3053270(CaPaEBR)ebr10283728(CaONFJC)MIL198924(MiAaPQ)EBC7037479(Au-PeEL)EBL7037479(EXLCZ)9911108731331232420000622d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIdeal code, real world a rule-consequentialist theory of morality /Brad HookerOxford :Clarendon Press ;New York :Oxford University Press,2000.1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages)0-19-825069-X 0-19-925657-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Rule-consequentialism""; ""1.2 Methodology""; ""1.3 Coherence between Moral Theories and Our Considered Convictions""; ""1.4 Moral Convictions We Share""; ""1.5 Why Look for a Unifying Account?""; ""1.6 Why Seek a Fundamentally Impartial Theory?""; ""1.7 A Preliminary Picture""; ""1.8 Objections to be Addressed""; ""2 What Are the Rules to Promote?""; ""2.1 A Picture of Rule-consequentialism""; ""2.2 Rules are Not to be Valued in Terms of Numbers of Acts""; ""2.3 Well-Being""; ""2.4 Well-Being versus Equality""""2.5 Fairness, Justice, Desert"" ""2.6 Fairness, Contracts, and Proportion""; ""2.7 Priority to the Well-being of the Worst Off""; ""2.8 Utilitarian Impartiality versus Priority to the Worst Off""; ""2.9 Whose Well-being Counts? Rule-consequentialism versus Contractualism""; ""2.10 Value in the Natural Environment""; ""3 Questions of Formulation""; ""3.1 Reasonably Expected, Rather than Actual, Consequences""; ""3.2 Compliance versus Acceptance""; ""3.3 What Level of Social Acceptance?""; ""3.4 Publicity, Yes; Relativizing, No""; ""3.5 The Operation of Rules""""4 Is Rule-Consequentialism Guilty of Collapse or Incoherence?"" ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Collapse into Extensional Equivalence with Act-consequentialism""; ""4.3 Why Rule-consequentialism Need Not Be Inconsistent""; ""4.4 Is Rule-consequentialism Really Crypto-contractualism?""; ""4.5 Is Rule-consequentialism Really Merely Intuitionism?""; ""4.6 Is Rule-consequentialism Not Really Consequentialist?""; ""5 Predictability and Convention""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Predictability""; ""5.3 Unrestricted Conventionalism""; ""5.4 Satis cing Conventionalism""""5.5 Compromising with Convention out of Fairness"" ""5.6 Public Goods and Good Dispositions""; ""6 Prohibitions and Special Obligations""; ""6.1 Basic Rule-consequentialist Prohibitions""; ""6.2 Our Intuitions about Prohibitions""; ""6.3 Rule-consequentialism, Prohibitions, and Judgement""; ""6.4 Rule-consequentialism and Absolute Prohibitions""; ""6.5 Special Obligations to Others""; ""7 Act-consequentialism""; ""7.1 Act-consequentialism as a Criterion of Rightness, Not a Decision Procedure""; ""7.2 Act- versus Rule-consequentialism on Prohibitions""; ""7.3 The Economics of World Poverty""""7.4 Act-consequentialism and the Needy"" ""8 Rule-consequentialism and Doing Good for the World""; ""8.1 Introduction""; ""8.2 The Large Gap Principle""; ""8.3 The Beneficence as an Imperfect Duty""; ""8.4 Doing What, if Everyone Did It, would Maximize the Good""; ""8.5 Behaving Decently in a Selfish World""; ""8.6 Other Possible Worlds""; ""8.7 Why Count the Costs of Getting Rules about Aid Internalized by the Poor?""; ""9 Help with Practical Problems""; ""9.1 Rule-consequentialism and Sex""; ""9.2 Kinds of Euthanasia""; ""9.3 Euthanasia as a Primarily Moral Matter""; ""9.4 Potential Benefits of Euthanasia""What are the appropriate criteria for assessing a theory of morality? This work begins by answering this question, and then argues for a rule-consequentialist theory in which acts should be assessed morally in terms of impartially justified rules.Consequentialism (Ethics)Rules (Philosophy)Consequentialism (Ethics)Rules (Philosophy)171/.5Hooker Brad1957-862848MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780329203321Ideal code, real world3840667UNINA