Morality as Legislation: Rules and Consequences

by Alex Tuckness

Book Overview

'What would happen if everyone acted that way?' This question is often used in everyday moral assessments, but it has a paradoxical quality: it draws not only on Kantian ideas of a universal moral law but also on consequentialist claims that what is right depends on the outcome. In this book, Alex Tuckness examines how the question came to be seen as paradoxical, tracing its history from the theistic approaches of the seventeenth century to the secular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009055615
• ISBN13: 9781009055611
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"