 Hooker himself, then, adheres to the view that an adequate moral theory “puts forward an impartial foundational principle for assessing possible moral rules, and this impartial foundational principle selects rules that allow considerable scope for partiality,” seeing both contractualism and rule consequentialism as examples of theories of this sort. (See (Hooker, 2000) for his development of a particular rule consequentialist view.) Such a theory would admit various forms of morally admirable and even morally required partiality, while holding that the rules permitting such partiality are countenanced by, and perhaps even reducible to, impartial moral principles.