Moral Contractualism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Southwood (0000-0002-5308-8814, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 926-937 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00256.x |
| OpenAlex | W4230340998 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article provides a critical introduction to contractualism as a moral or ethical theory, that is, as a theory of the rightness and wrongness of individual conduct - focusing specifically on the influential 'Kantian' version of contractualism due to T. M. Scanlon. I begin by elucidating the key features of Scanlon's contractualism: justifiability to others; reasonable rejectability; the individualist restriction; and mutual recognition. I then turn to discuss both its appeal and the main objections that have been raised to it - objections concerning our duties to the cognitively limited and impaired, aggregation, demandingness, normativity and explanatory adequacy. I conclude by mentioning some contractualist alternatives to Scanlon's theory
Appeal · Contractualism · Epistemology · Ethical theory · Individualism · Law and economics · Methodological individualism · Normative ethics · Political science · Sociology · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification
A Theory of Justice
Justifying the State
Justice As Impartiality
Equality and Partiality
The Sources of Normativity
Contractualism and Aggregation
Contractualism and Moral Status
Contractualism, spare wheel, aggregation
Saving Scanlon
The Redundancy Objection, and Why Scanlon is Not a Contractualist
How to Include the Severely Disabled in a Contractarian Theory of Justice
Moral Relativism Defended
The Common Mind
The Limits of Moral Constructivism
The Demandingness of Scanlon’s Contractualism
The Rejection of Consequentialism
A deliberative model of contractualism
The Numbers Problem
Defending the Moral Moderate
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |