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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501745799
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  • 171 20
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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, many of which have become difficult to find.
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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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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, many of which have become difficult to find.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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