Morality as Legislation

ISBN-13: 9781009055611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 243 str.

Alex (Iowa State University) Tuckness

Opis

Examines consequentialist and non-consequentialist interpretations of the question 'what would happen if everyone acted that way?'

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The Emergence of the Rule-consequentialist Paradox: 1. God and consequences: the path to Locke; 2. Legislators, architects, and spectators: the path to David Hume; 3. The great divide: Bentham and Paley; 4. Moral expression as legislation: J. S. Mill and Sidgwick; 5. Secular heterodoxy: twentieth century rule-utilitarianism; Part II. Contemporary Approaches to the Rule-consequentialist Paradox: 6. Four contemporary options for resolving the paradox; 7. A hybrid defense of the legislative perspective; Works cited; Index.