Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don’t

✍ Scribed by Alan H. Goldman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 223
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition: First Edition
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure our sense of justice. Under what conditions should we make exceptions to rules, and when should they be followed despite particular circumstances? The two dominant models in the current literature on rules are the particularist account and that which sees the application of rules as normative. Taking a position that falls between these two extremes, Alan Goldman is the first to provide a systematic framework to clarify when we need to follow rules in our moral, legal, and prudential decisions, and when we ought not to do so.

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