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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Contractualism"”.
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Scanlon's Contractualism and Its Critics
… dissertation examines whether Thomas Scanlon’s contractualism satisfactorily explains its intended domain of morality which he terms “what we owe to each other.” Scanlon proposes that such interpersonal morality is based on justifying one’s actions to others by behaving according to principles …
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Charity as a Foundation of Ethics
… (You may say, "Are you suggesting that contractualism, for example, should be founded on love? Well… it isn't. If it were it would not be contractualism.") The structure of my argument therefore begins with some remarks on ethics as a project. Why might it be the sort of thing that is …
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Knowing How, Knowing Who, Knowing What to Do
… theories of ethics such as ex ante contractualism, where an action’s permissibility depends on whether I am able to justify it to those affected. This chapter presents a puzzle for ex ante contractualism. In particular, I argue that whether or not I am able to justify an action to an …
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One and the same reason
… with other agents that is similar to the contractualism of Hobbes and Rawls. The difference between my view and theirs is that my contractualism, because it is tied to our agency, issues in categorical requirements. In Chapter Three I develop a theory of normative concepts that satisfies …
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Pulling down their breaches : An analysis of Centrelink breach and appeal numbers from 1996 to 2001 using a case study of a single Centrelink office
… included the neo-liberals, advocates, new-contractualism, the view that surveillance is oppressive and an interpretation that draws from the work of Michel Foucault. The thesis found that Foucault's work on discipline and governmentality - particularly his ideas about surveillance and …
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Williams, Scanlon, and the Normativity of Morality
… is not ultimately entitled. This thesis details Contractualism’s capacity to answer to this challenge. In particular, this thesis defends the idea that Contractualism offers an account of inter-personal morality that is substantively correct and accessible to integrated agents. Contractualism’s …
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The significance of fairness/
… of citizens by the state. In Chapter 3 ("Contractualism, Politics and Morality") I discuss Rawls' contractualist theory of social justice and Scanlon's extension of it to provide a theory of "rightness", or morality more generally.
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Do humans have special duties and moral obligations towards, rather than ‘rights’ over, nonhuman animals? And if such duties exist, what does our collective treatment of nonhumans say about human morality?
… justice. The thesis argues against versions of contractualism that make this conditional upon the ability to claim rights or fulfil obligations; it also challenges theories that link moral standing to a hierarchical model of cognitive capacities. I contend that humans rely on an artificial …
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The ideal of liberty in the political philosophy of David Hume
… and other forms of republicanism, namely Whig contractualism, I argue that Hume’s concept of liberty remains essentially republican: liberty is for Hume the absence of arbitrariness guaranteed by the rule of law, not absence of interference, as in Hobbes. Having argued that modern politics, …
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IL PARTENARIATO PUBBLICO-PRIVATO E L¿ENERGY PERFORMANCE CONTRACT NEL PROCESSO DI TRANSIZIONE ENERGETICA
… the concepts of “negotiability of power” and “contractualism”, serves, on the one hand, as a means of guiding private-sector activities without imposing market rules excessively restrictive of individual legal autonomy. On the other hand, it provides a way to harness private autonomy (alongside …
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Migrações e os desafios às democracias europeias: uma análise sob a perspetiva da ética contratualista à abertura das fronteiras
Após o Tratado de Lisboa a União Europeia manteve a pretensão em alcançar uma política de asilo e migração comum, sustentada no Código de Fronteiras Schengen e no desenvolvimento do sistema de asilo. No entanto, o afluxo de migrantes e as constantes tragédias no Mediterrâneo dominaram as decisões …