Morality within the Limits of Reason

By: Russell Hardin

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Paperback | 15 May 1990 | Edition Number 1

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This provocative, lucidly written reconstruction of utilitarianism focuses on the practical constraints involved in ethical choice: information may be inadequate, and understanding of causes and effects may be limited. Good decision making may be especially constrained if other people are closely involved in determining an outcome. Hardin demonstrates that many of these structural issues can and should be distinguished from the thornier problems of utilitarian value theory, and he is able to show what kinds of moral conclusions we can reach within the limits of reason.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction An Overview
Limits of Reason in Moral
Theory Limits of Reason Strategic Interaction and Moral
Theory Moral and Political
Theory Rule-Utilitarianism and Act-Utilitarianism
The Utilitarian Program Peculiar Examples and Ethical Argument
The Strategic Structure of Moral Problems
The Strategic Categories Pure Conflict
Interactions Mixed-Motive Interactions Pure Coordination
Interactions Value Theory Issues
Promising Generalization Agency in Social Interactions
Appendix: The Completeness and Relevance of the Typology of Moral Problems
Institutional Utilitarianism I: Without Interpersonal Comparisons
The Strategy of Rights Individual Protections Dyadic Protections Collective
Protections Group Rights The Institutionalization of Rights Practices and Rules
Rights versus Unanimity Contractarianism
Institutional Utilitarianism
II: With Interpersonal Comparisons Conflicts between Rights Piecemeal versus Overall Justifications of Rights Distributive
Justice Paternalism Institutionalized Interventions Ad Hoc Interventions Collective
Responsibility Welfare, Incentives, and Policies
Utilitarian Value Theory Utility
Theory Intuitions in Moral
Theory Personal Identity and Weakness of Will Endogeneity of Preferences and Individual Autonomy
Utilitarianism and the Limits of Welfare
Theory
References
Index
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