Contractarianism and Rational Choice
Subtitle: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 25, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780521398152
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Political science & theory; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; History & Surveys - Modern; Gauthier, David P; Philosophy; Morals by agreement; Gauthier, David P.--Morals by agreement; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Philosophy : History & Surveys - Modern; General; Contractarianism (Ethics); Cooperation; Gauthier, David P.
First sentence: Over the last twenty years, and most notably in his recent book Morals by Agreement, David Gauthier has been engaged in three distinct, but closely related, projects: (1) defending a contractarian theory of morality, (2) defending a theory of rational choice, and (3) defending the claim that rationality requires that we comply with the dictates of morality.