Morality, Rules and Consequences
«These essays provide the best available survey of rule consequentialism: they are original and of a very high standard. This book will be a major resource for moral philosophers and scholars of consequentialist ethics for some time to come. -- Paul Kelly, London School of Economics These essays provide the best available survey of rule consequentialism: they are original and of a very high standard. This book will be a major resource for moral philosophers and scholars of consequentialist ethics for some time to come.»
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. Les mer
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Features *The volume presents original scholarship on an important and developing area of contemporary moral philosophy *The contributors are the leading philosophers in the field *Advances debate about whether rule consequentialism is a satisfactory moral theory *A balanced collection containing essays by supporters of the theory and its critics Contributors: David Haslett, Brad Hooker, Shelly Kagan, Sanford Levy, David Lyons, Dale E. Miller, Phillip Montague, Tim Mulgan, Philip Pettit, Madison Powers, Jonathan Riley, William Shaw, Michael Smith and Alan Thomas.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Edinburgh University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780748611744
- Utgivelsesår
- 2000
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«These essays provide the best available survey of rule consequentialism: they are original and of a very high standard. This book will be a major resource for moral philosophers and scholars of consequentialist ethics for some time to come. -- Paul Kelly, London School of Economics These essays provide the best available survey of rule consequentialism: they are original and of a very high standard. This book will be a major resource for moral philosophers and scholars of consequentialist ethics for some time to come.»