Contractarianism and Rational Choice
Subtitle: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 22, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521391344
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; General; Applied Ethics; Philosophy; Morals by agreement; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Gauthier, David P.--Morals by agreement; Philosophy / General; Cooperation; Contractarianism (Ethics); Gauthier, David P; 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.