Practical rules : when we need them and when we don't /
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| Author / Creator: | Goldman, Alan H., 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2001] |
| Description: | xi, 210 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4559827 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Moral Rules
- 1. Outline of the task
- 2. Types of rules: dispensable and indispensable
- 3. Ordinary moral consciousness
- 4. Rules as second-best strategies
- 5. The justification of rules: strong and weak
- 6. Interpretation of weak rules
- Part II. Prudential Rules
- 7. Moral and prudential rules compared
- 8. Second-order prudential rules: optimizing
- 9. A prudential rule to be moral
- Part III. Legal Rules
- 10. Classification
- 11. The descriptive question: Hart, Dworkin and others
- 12. The descriptive question: sources of law
- 13. The normative question
- Part IV. Moral Reasoning Without Rules
- 14. The inadequacy of particularism
- 15. Coherence
- 16. The reasoning process reviewed
- 17. Objections
- Notes
- References
- Index
