Practical Rules When We Need Them and When We Don`t

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Moral Rules I. Outline of the Task II. Types of Rules: Dispensable and Indispensable III. Ordinary Moral Consciousness IV. Rules as Second-Best Strategies V. The Justification of Rules: Strong and Weak VI. Interpretation of Weak Rules 2 Prudential Rules I. Moral and Prudential Rules Compared II. Second-Order Prudential Rules: Optimizing III. A Prudential Rule to Be Moral 3 Legal Rules I. Classification II. The Descriptive Question: Hart, Dworkin, and Others III. The Descriptive Question: Sources of Law IV. The Normative Question 4 Moral Reasoning without Rules I. The Inadequacy of Particularism II. Coherence III. The Reasoning Process Reviewed IV. Objections