LEADER 05235nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910780329203321 005 20230922183647.0 010 $a0-19-159770-8 010 $a0-19-152026-8 010 $a1-281-98924-X 010 $a9786611989248 035 $a(CKB)111087313312324 035 $a(EBL)3053270 035 $a(OCoLC)316064825 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000087427 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11988268 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087427 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10053185 035 $a(PQKB)10865065 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000299246 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12099240 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299246 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237386 035 $a(PQKB)11786890 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053270 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3053270 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10283728 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL198924 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7037479 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7037479 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087313312324 100 $a20000622d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIdeal code, real world $ea rule-consequentialist theory of morality /$fBrad Hooker 210 1$aOxford :$cClarendon Press ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) 311 0 $a0-19-825069-X 311 0 $a0-19-925657-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 330 8 $aWhat 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. 606 $aConsequentialism (Ethics) 606 $aRules (Philosophy) 615 0$aConsequentialism (Ethics) 615 0$aRules (Philosophy) 676 $a171/.5 700 $aHooker$b Brad$f1957-$0862848 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780329203321 996 $aIdeal code, real world$93840667 997 $aUNINA