Owing, Justifying, and Rejecting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23716068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F M Kamm (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 455-487 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Intricate ethics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189698.003.0017 |
| OpenAlex | W4236694950 |
| ISBN | 9780195189698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This final chapter deals with contractualism and its attempt to generate moral principles by taking seriously the perspectives of individuals rather than by maximizing the goodness of outcomes. It does this by analyzing Thomas Scanlon's contractualist theory of morality. It focuses primarily on Scanlon's views on wrongness, value, and the theory of contractualism and concludes that while Scanlon believes that he is giving an account of wrongness, he actually gives what is better described as an account of wronging. The chapter then examines reasoning that may be employed in deriving moral principles in a contractualist framework. It argues that Scanlon assumes nonconsequentialist distinctions that one would have thought his system should attempt to justify, and that there are significant problems with his views on aggregation.
Contractualism · Epistemology · Law and economics · Morality · Normative ethics · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Legal principles and applications · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |