Moral Dealing : : Contract, Ethics, and Reason /

Moral Dealing : : Contract, Ethics, and Reason / / David Gauthier.

David Gauthier is one of the most outstanding and influential philosophers working in moral theory today, and his book Morals by Agreement (1986) has established him as a preeminent defender of contractarian moral theory. This volume brings together a selection of his best essays on contractarianism...

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Gauthier, David,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • HISTORICAL ESSAYS
  • 1. Thomas Hobbes: Moral Theorist
  • 2. Why Ought One Obey God? Reflections on Hobbes and Locke
  • 3. David Hume, Contractarian
  • 4. The Politics of Redemption
  • 5. The Unity of Reason: A Subversive Reinterpretation of Kant
  • JUSTICE
  • 6. Three against Justice: The Foole, the Sensible Knave, and the Lydian Shepherd
  • 7. Justice and Natural Endowment: Toward a Critique of Rawls's Ideological Framework
  • 8. Justice as Social Choice (in part)
  • 9. Bargaining and Justice
  • RATIONALITY
  • 10. Reason and Maximization
  • 11. The Incompleat Egoist
  • 12. Coordination
  • 13. Deterrence, Maximization, and Rationality
  • 14. The Social Contract as Ideology
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Author's Bibliography, I963-I988
  • Index

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