Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader

Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader

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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 anything else. Rule consequentialism tries to weave these two ideas into a general theory of morality. This theory holds that morally wrong actions are the ones forbidden by rules whose acceptance would maximize the overall good. Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader explores for students and researchers the relationship between consequentialist theory and moral rules. Most of the chapters focus on rule consequentialism or on the distinction between act and rule versions of consequentialism. [from Amazon.com]

ISBN

9780742509696

Publication Date

2000

Publisher

Rowan & Littlefield

City

Lanham, MD

Keywords

Consequentialism, Morality, Moral code, Utilitarianism

Disciplines

Applied Ethics | Philosophy

Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader

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