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Scanlon and Contractualism
Author | : Matt Matravers |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781135755942 |
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This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon's contractualism and his revised understandings of motivation and morality. The essays illustrate the uses of Scanlon's contractualism by applying it to moral and political problems and in so doing they provide an assessment of the ability of Scanlon's contractualism by applying it to other forms of ethical theory. The resulting volume makes an important and original contribution to the literature on Scanlon, on contractualism and on contemporary political philosophy.
Reason Justification and Contractualism
Author | : Markus Stepanians,Michael Frauchiger |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-09-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783110733754 |
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This book collects major original essays developed from lectures given at the award of the Lauener Prize 2016 to T. M. Scanlon for his outstanding oeuvre in Analytical philosophy. In "Contractualism and Justification," Scanlon identifies some difficulties in his theory and explores possible ways to deal with them. In "Improving Scanlon’s Contractualism," D. Parfit recommends revisions and extensions of Scanlon’s theory, while R. Forst suggests in "Justification Fundamentalism" that Scanlon may want to replace reason with justification as his foundational concept. T. Nagel raises fundamental questions concerning "Moral Reality and Moral Progress," and S. Mantel offers in "On How to Explain Rational Motivation" a critical discussion of Scanlon’s cognitivist theory of motivation. Z. Stemplowska does the same for Scanlon’s conception of responsibility in "Substantive Responsibility and the Causal Thesis," and S. Olsaretti suggests in "Equality of Opportunity and Justified Inequalities" an alternative to Scanlon’s arguments against economic inequalities. All contributors receive extensive replies by Scanlon. For anyone interested in Scanlon’s seminal work in moral and political philosophy, the present volume is utterly indispensable.
What We Owe to Each Other
Author | : T. M. Scanlon |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2000-11-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780674004238 |
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How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.
Utilitarianism and Beyond
Author | : Amartya Sen,Bernard Williams |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1982-06-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521287715 |
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Utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice.
Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality
Author | : Nicholas Southwood |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2010-11-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199539659 |
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Proposes a new model of contractualism based on an interpersonal, deliberative conception of practical reason which answers the twin demands of moral accuracy and explanatory adequacy.
The Original Position
Author | : Timothy Hinton |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2015-12-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107044487 |
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This volume explores and analyses the continued relevance and ramifications of the original position, the central idea of John Rawls's political philosophy.
The Difficulty of Tolerance
Author | : Thomas Scanlon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2003-06-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0521533988 |
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These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be respected even when it seems that better results could be achieved by violating them. Other topics which are explored include voluntariness and consent, freedom of expression, tolerance, punishment, and human rights. The collection includes the classic essays 'Preference and Urgency', 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', and 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', as well as a number of other essays that have hitherto not been easily accessible. It will be essential reading for all those studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.
Special Issue on Scanlon and Contractualism
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Author | : Matt Matravers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:163139838 |
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