Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader

by Elinor Mason, Dale E. Miller, Brad Hooker

Book Overview

What determines whether an action is right or wrong? 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742509702
• ISBN13: 9780742509702
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"