Alex Tuckness (Iowa State University)

Morality as Legislation

Rules and Consequences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 243
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781009055611
• ISBN-10: 1009055615
• Artikelnr.: 68646247

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.