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Morality, rules, and consequences : a critical reader /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, and Dale E. Miller
- 1. Between act and rule: the consequentialism of G.E. Moore / William H. Shaw
- 2. The educational equivalence of act and rule utilitarianism / Sanford S. Levy
- 3. Defending rule utilitarianism / Jonathan Riley
- 4. Values, obligations, and saving lives / D.W. Haslett
- 5. The moral opacity of utilitarianism / David Lyons
- 6. Global consequentialism / Philip Pettit and Michael Smith
- 7. Evaluative focal points / Shelly Kagan
- 8. Hooker's use and abuse of reflective equilibrium / Dale E. Miller
- 9. Consequentialism and the subversion of pluralism / Alan Thomas
- 10. Why rule consequentialism is not superior to Ross-style pluralism / Phillip Montague
- 11. Ruling out rule consequentialism / Tim Mulgan
- 12. Reflective equilibrium and rule consequentialism / Brad Hooker
- 13. Rule consequentialism and the value of friendship / Madison Powers
- Notes on contributors
- Index.