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DIALOGUE-CANADIAN PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 337-351Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0012217309090283
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In Ideal Code, Real World Brad Hooker seeks to offer aversion of ideal rule consequentialism that is immune tom standard criticisms. I will attempt to challenge Hooker's ideal rule-consequentialist theory by arguing that there are philosophical problems at the ultimate foundation of his maximizing consequentialist and pluralist approach toward well-being and other basic goods. I find that no amount of revision is likely to insulate his approach from standard criticisms. I suggest that any maximizing rule-consequentialist approach toward well-being, taken in a rich and pluralist sense, is likely to fall prey to standard criticisms. In later work, Hooker drops ideal rule consequentialism in favor of an incremental rule-consequentialist approach. That piecemeal approach is also challenged in this paper
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