This collection brings together essays which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and which 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. So, the central questions are: What is the best interpretation of the theory advanced in 'What We Owe to Each Other?'; How does...
This collection brings together essays which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and which comment critically both on Scan...
Addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, this book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept.
Addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, this book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increas...
