Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader
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Description
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
Recommended Citation
Mason, Elinor (Editor); Miller, Dale E. (Editor); and Hooker, Brad (Editor), "Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader" (2000). Philosophy Faculty Books. 11.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/philosophy_fac_books/11