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

ISBN: 9780521034074 出版年：2001 页码：224 Alan H Goldman Cambridge University Press

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.