Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Nicholas Southwood in 2013-11-07, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Philosophy genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Philosophy book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.

Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality Book PDF Summary

Contractualism has a venerable history and considerable appeal. Yet as an account of the foundations or ultimate grounds of morality it has been thought by many philosophers to be subject to fatal objections. In this book Nicholas Southwood argues otherwise. Beginning by detailing and diagnosing the shortcomings of the existing "Hobbesian" and "Kantian" models of contractualism, he then proposes a novel "deliberative" model, based on an interpersonal, deliberative conception of practical reason. He argues that the deliberative model of contractualism represents an attractive alternative to its more familiar rivals and that it has the resources to offer a more compelling account of morality's foundations, one that does justice to the twin demands of moral accuracy and explanatory adequacy.

Detail Book of Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality PDF

Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality
  • Author : Nicholas Southwood
  • Release : 07 November 2013
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • ISBN : 9780191009990
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Total Page : 221 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 9,7 Mb

If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality by Nicholas Southwood, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.

Get Book

Rightness as Fairness

Rightness as Fairness Author : Marcus Arvan
Publisher : Springer
File Size : 12,9 Mb
Get Book
Rightness as Fairness provides a uniquely fruitful method of 'principled fair negotiation' for resol...

Society s Choices

Society s Choices Author : Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
File Size : 12,6 Mb
Get Book
Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, ...

Moral Theory

Moral Theory Author : Mark Timmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
File Size : 8,6 Mb
Get Book
Moral Theory: An Introduction explores some of the historically most important and currently debated...

The Origins of Fairness

The Origins of Fairness Author : Nicolas Baumard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
File Size : 35,7 Mb
Get Book
In order to describe the logic of morality, "contractualist" philosophers have studied how individua...

This Is Ethical Theory

This Is Ethical Theory Author : Jan Narveson
Publisher : Open Court
File Size : 11,8 Mb
Get Book
Ethical questions lie at the very heart of all philosophy, and no one is better equipped to untangle...

The Right to Justification

The Right to Justification Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Columbia University Press
File Size : 27,8 Mb
Get Book
Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical...

The Ethics of Care

The Ethics of Care Author : Virginia Held
Publisher : Oxford University Press
File Size : 34,7 Mb
Get Book
Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories ...