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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. 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essays, all of which are previously unpublished, provide students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.
A philosophical account of an economic system that avoids both the moral failings of capitalism and the inefficiencies of socialism.
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