Morality As Legislation - Rules and Consequences

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

Alex Tuckness is Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University. He is the author of Locke and the Legislative Point of View (2002), The Decline of Mercy in Public Life (with John Michael Parrish, Cambridge University Press, 2014) and This is Political Philosophy (with Clark Wolf, 2016).

Summary

Morality as Legislation examines consequentialist and non-consequentialist interpretations of the question 'what would happen if everyone acted that way?' It will appeal to readers interested in both the history of morality and contemporary debates about the nature of morality.

Foreword

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

Product details

• Authors: Alex Tuckness, Alex (Iowa State University) Tuckness, Tuckness Alex
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781009055611
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0905561-1
• No. of pages: 243
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law