TY - BOOK ID - 77889910 TI - Moral objectives, rules, and the forms of social change PY - 1998 SN - 1281995436 9786611995430 1442677368 9781442677364 9781281995438 0802041698 0802080316 9780802080318 9780802041692 PB - Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press DB - UniCat KW - Ethics. KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Philosophy KW - Values KW - Ethics KW - Social ethics KW - Social problems KW - Sociology KW - Social ethics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77889910 AB - "Fruit from forty years' writing, these essays by David Braybrooke take up an assortment of practical concerns that ethics brings into politics: people's interests; needs along with preferences; work and commitment to work; participation in social life. Essays follow on justice and the common good. Parts II and III of the book deal with settled social rules, devices for securing the objectives just treated. Part II shows that rules go hand in hand with virtues, and, in social phenomena, with causal regularities. Part III captures dialectic in history in a logical analysis of how rules (policies) can be prudent by keeping within incremental limits, yet imaginative enough to escape the recent embarrassments generated by social choice theory."--Jacket. ER -