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Contractarianism Ethics

Contractarianism Ethics

CORE PRINCIPLES

  • Based on social contract theory
  • Optimized by perspective-taking
  • Everyone's interest is maximized
  • Contribution and protection
  • Objective morality with relativity
  • Contractarianism is better than contractualism

Challenges (Recent)

CHALLENGES

1. Why is contractarianism ethics better than other ethical theories when all ethical theories involved perspective-taking to some degree?

  • Practicality due to inefficiency
  • Principle of action

2. How is contractarianism ethics better than other ethical theories?

  • Flexibility: Defects or strength?
  • Local scale vs global scale

3. The conflict between past experience and perspective-taking

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CITATIONS

1. Timmerman, P. (2015). Contractualism and the significance of perspective-taking. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 18(5), 909–925. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9543-7

2. Gilligan, C. (1995). Moral orientation and moral development [1987]. In Justice and Care (pp. 31-46). Routledge.

3. Lochner, L. (2007). Individual perceptions of the criminal justice system. American Economic Review, 97(1), 444-460.

4. Cudd, A., & Eftekhari, S. (2000, June 18). Contractarianism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism/

5. Thrasher, J., D'Agostino, F., & Gaus, G. (1996, March 3). Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved February 2, 2023, from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/

6. Solum, Lawrence, et al. “Legal Theory Lexicon: Contractarianism, Contractualism, and the Social Contract.” Legal Theory Blog, 13 March 2022, https://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2022/03/legal-theory-lexicon-contractarianism-contractualism-and-the-social-contract.html.

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