Ideal Code, Real World A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality

Name: Ideal Code, Real World A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality
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ISBN: 9780199256570

ISBN-10: 0199256578

ISBN-13: 9780199256570

Edition: 2002

Authors: Brad Hooker

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What are appropriate criteria for assessing a theory of morality? In Ideal Code, Real World, Brad Hooker begins by answering this question, and then argues for a rule-consequentialist theory. According to rule-consequentialism, acts should be assessed morally in terms of impartially justified rules, and rules are impartially justified if and only if the expected overall value of their general internalization is at least as great as for any alternative rules. In the course of developing his rule-consequentialism, Hooker discusses impartiality, well-being, fairness, equality, the question of how the 'general internalization' of rules is to be interpreted by rule-consequentialism, and the main…

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 8.52" wide x 5.58" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



ideal Code, Real World


Ideal Code, Real World


Acknowledgements



Introduction



What Are the Rules to Promote?



Questions of Formulation



Is Rule-Consequentialism Guilty of Collapse or Incoherence?



Predictability and Convention



Prohibitions and Special Obligations



Act-Consequentialism



Rule-Consequentialism and Doing Good for the World



Help with Practical Problems


Afterword


References


Index