Morality As Legislation: Rules And Consequences

I choose to begin the historical survey in the 17th century. While one can perhaps find earlier versions of the legislative perspective, the goal of the historical survey is not to provide a complete genealogy of the idea but rather to map a transition from one way of thinking to another. This chapter describes the use of the legislative perspective in a school of thought interested in natural law and natural rights with an empiricist aspect. They argued for the existence of transcultural, transhistorical moral principles but also believed that in order to identify those principles one needed to know something about the likely consequences of people trying to act on a rule--

• | Author: Alex Tuckness
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: 12-Aug-21
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1316511405
• | ISBN-13: 9781316511404