Ideal code, real world : a rule-consequentialist theory of morality

Ideal code, real world : a rule-consequentialist theory of morality / Brad Hooker.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hooker, Brad, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Consequentialism (Ethics)
Rules (Philosophy)
rules (instructions)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Utilitarianism.
Consequentialisme.
Regels.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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