Moral Legislation: A Legal-Political Model for Indirect Consequentialist Reasoning

by Conrad D. Johnson

This is a book about moral reasoning: how we actually reason and how we ought to reason. It defends a form of rule utilitarianism whereby we must sometimes judge and act in moral questions in accordance with generally accepted rules, so long as the existence of those rules is justified by the good they bring about. The author opposes the currently more fashionable view that it is always right for the individual to do that which produces the most good...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521392241
• ISBN13: 9780521392242
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"