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Contractualism and the foundations of morality
- Title
- Contractualism and the foundations of morality / Nicholas Southwood.
- Author
- Southwood, Nicholas.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 208 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-199) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Contractualism ; Morality's foundations ; Method ; Outline -- The limits of Hobbesian contractualism. Gauthier's Hobbesian contractualism ; The normativity objection ; The impartiality objection ; Summary -- The limits of Kantian contractualism. Scanlon's Kantian contractualism ; The circularity objection ; The non-fundamentality objection ; Summary -- The structure of deliberative contractualism. Deliberative rationality ; Inputs to deliberation ; Output : a common code to live by ; Inclusion broad and narrow ; Summary -- The normativity of deliberative contractualism. Instrumentalism, substantivism, rational formalis ; Deliberative citizenship and the interpersonal point of view ; Relational formalism : reasons of deliberative citizenship ; Answering the critics ; Summary -- Getting morality right. Does deliberative contractualism get moarlity's intensional character right? ; Does deliberative contractualism get morality's extensional character right? ; Summary -- Grounding morality. Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily backwards? ; Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily superseded? ; Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily epiphenomenal? ; Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily circular? ; Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily non-fundamental? ; Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-1043
- ISBN
- 9780199539659 (hbk.)
- 0199539650 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2010933145
- OCLC
- 642283063
- Author
- Southwood, Nicholas.
- Title
- Contractualism and the foundations of morality / Nicholas Southwood.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-199) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-1043