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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gauthier, David, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contracts.

Ethics.

Reason.

Philosophy & Religion.

Local Subjects:

Philosophy & Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501745799

1501745794

OCLC:

1129186665