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Author | : Nicholas Southwood |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2010-11-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199539650 |
Download Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Matt Matravers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135755949 |
Download Scanlon and Contractualism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Markus Stepanians |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-09-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110733757 |
Download Reason, Justification, and Contractualism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1982-06-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521287715 |
Download Utilitarianism and Beyond Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice.
Author | : T. M. Scanlon |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2000-11-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 067400423X |
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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.
Author | : Jussi Suikkanen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108587119 |
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This Element begins by describing T.M. Scanlon's contractualism according to which an action is right when it is authorised by the moral principles no one could reasonably reject. This view has argued to have implausible consequences with regards to how different-sized groups, non-human animals, and cognitively limited human beings should be treated. It has also been accused of being theoretically redundant and unable to vindicate the so-called deontic distinctions. I then distinguish between the general contractualist framework and Scanlon's version of contractualism. I explain how the general framework enables us to formulate many other versions of contractualism some of which can already be found in the literature. Understanding contractualism in this new way enables us both to understand the structural similarities and differences between different versions of contractualism and also to see the different objections to contractualism as internal debates about which version of contractualism is correct.
Author | : Terry Carney |
Publisher | : Federation Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781862873667 |
Download Contractualism and Citizenship Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contractualism and Citizenship is a special issue (Volume 18 No 2) of the journal Law in Context. The contents are listed below. You can read the abstract for each chapter by clicking on its title.You can purchase a single copy of this issue through this page, or subscribe to the journal from the journal page.
Author | : Nicholas Southwood |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191009997 |
Download Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contractualism has a venerable history and considerable appeal. Yet as an account of the foundations or ultimate grounds of morality it has been thought by many philosophers to be subject to fatal objections. In this book Nicholas Southwood argues otherwise. Beginning by detailing and diagnosing the shortcomings of the existing "Hobbesian" and "Kantian" models of contractualism, he then proposes a novel "deliberative" model, based on an interpersonal, deliberative conception of practical reason. He argues that the deliberative model of contractualism represents an attractive alternative to its more familiar rivals and that it has the resources to offer a more compelling account of morality's foundations, one that does justice to the twin demands of moral accuracy and explanatory adequacy.
Author | : Peter Carruthers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1992-09-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521436892 |
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Peter Carruthers explores a variety of moral theories, arguing that animals lack direct moral significance.
Author | : Jules L. Coleman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1998-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521631793 |
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Essays concerned with fundamental issues of rational commitment and social justice to which Kavka devoted his work as a philosopher.