Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader

by Brad Hooker (Editor), Elinor Mason, Dale E. Miller

What determines whether an action is right or wrong? Morality, Rules, and 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. Contributors, among them the leading philosophers in the discipline, suggest ways of assessing whether rule consequentialism could be a satisfactory moral theory. These essays, all of which are previously unpublished, provide students in moral philosophy with essential material and ask key questions on just what the criteria for an adequate moral theory might be.

Genres: Philosophy

272 pages, Hardcover

First published July 19, 2000