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- Title
MIGHT KANTIAN CONTRACTUALISM BE THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF MORALITY?
- Authors
Rosen, Gideon
- Abstract
According to Parfit, the best version of Kantian ethics takes as its central principle Kantian Contractualism: the thesis that everyone ought to follow the principles whose universal acceptance everyone could rationally will. This paper examines that thesis, identifies a class of annoying counterexamples, and suggests that when Kantian Contractualism is modified in response to these examples, the resulting principle is too complex and ad hoc to serve as the ‘supreme principle of morality’.
- Subjects
CONTRACTARIANISM (Ethics); VALUES (Ethics); ETHICS; SOCIAL responsibility; CONDUCT of life; PARFIT, Derek, 1942-2017
- Publication
Ratio, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
0034-0006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9329.2008.00419.x