Ideal code, real world : a rule-consequentialist theory of morality /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 9.5 The Potential Harms of Allowing Involuntary Euthanasia
- 9.6 Potential Harms of Allowing Voluntary and Non-voluntary Euthanasia.