Acceptance‐Based or Teaching‐Based Rule Consequentialism?

ABSTRACT Is an action obligatory if and only if it is prescribed by a code that is the best to be taught to the next generation? This paper discusses whether this version of rule consequentialism is superior to acceptance‐based formulations in some relevant respects. Ultimately, I conclude that, given certain requirements rule consequentialism should ideally meet, teaching‐based formulations are no better than acceptance‐based ones.