What we owe to each other

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...

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Main Author: Scanlon, Thomas 1940- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge, Mass [u.a.] Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1998
In:Year: 1998
Further subjects:B Right and wrong
B Judgment (Ethics)
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Summary: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. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions
Item Description:Book based on material presented at meetings and colloquiums; several chapters have been previously published in various journals
Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-416) and index
ISBN:0674950895