Morality and Agreement
Subtitle: A Defense of Moral Contractarianism (Studies in Theoretical and Applied Ethics, V. 5.)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780820452166
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Religious; Philosophy; Contractarianism (Ethics)
Description: "This book argues for moral contractarianism, the view that moral justification rests on the idea of agreement. It critically appraises the views of contemporary contractarians such as John Rawls, David Gauthier, and Thomas Scanlon. It argues for a theory of moral justification that is based on a hypothetical agreement of restricted scope between strangers in the circumstances of justice and that is bound by historical place and circumstance."--BOOK JACKET.