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Hooker Brad <1957->
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Titolo: |
Ideal code, real world : a rule-consequentialist theory of morality / / Brad Hooker
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Clarendon Press |
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2000 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) |
Disciplina: | 171/.5 |
Soggetto topico: | Consequentialism (Ethics) |
Rules (Philosophy) | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ideal code, real world ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-159770-8 |
0-19-152026-8 | |
1-281-98924-X | |
9786611989248 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816219003321 |
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