Future People
A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations
Mulgan, Tim University of St Andrews
Print publication date: 2006 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928220-3







doi:10.1093/019928220X.003.0005

Tim Mulgan
Abstract: This chapter explores Rule Consequentialism. It begins with a brief introduction to contemporary Rule Consequentialism, focusing on Brad Hooker’s formulation. A new formulation of Rule Consequentialism is developed, incorporating the lexical value theory presented in Chapter 3. It then demonstrates the general intuitive appeal of this formulation, focusing on parental obligations to demonstrate that Rule Consequentialism avoids at least one of the failings of the Hybrid View.

Keywords: Rule Consequentialism, Hooker, lexical, uncertainty, parental obligations,

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