What we owe to each other
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Publication
1998 - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
105,000 words, Guess
Page Count
420 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL363086M
- ISBN-100674950895
- OCLC Control Number39189891
- OCLC Control Numberwhatweowetoeacho00scan_0
- Library of Congress Control Number98023318
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- Goodreads1903438
- LibraryThing58259
Classifications
- DDC170
- LCCBJ1411 .S36 1998
Description
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.
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