Moral Education and Rule Consequentialism

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ID4352191
AuthorsDale E Miller (0000-0002-8946-0040, Old Dominion University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume71
Issue1
Pages120-140
Publication date2020-12-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqaa023
OpenAlexW3023159144
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited13

Rule consequentialism holds that an action's moral standing depends on its relation to the moral code whose general adoption would have the best consequences. Heretofore rule consequentialists have understood the notion of a code's being generally adopted in terms of its being generally obeyed or, more commonly, its being generally accepted. I argue that these ways of understanding general adoption lead to unacceptable formulations of the theory. For instance, Brad Hooker, Michael Ridge, and Holly Smith have recently offered different answers to the question of what 'acceptance rate' we should build into our formulation of rule consequentialism, and all are unsatisfactory. I argue instead for a novel approach to formulating rule consequentialism, 'uniform-moral-education' rule consequentialism, on which what it means for a moral code to be generally adopted is not for it to be generally followed or generally accepted, but instead for it to be generally taught

Action (physics) · Consequentialism · Deontological ethics · Epistemology · Moral philosophy · Relation (database) · Sociology · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification

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