Reductionist contractualism: Moral motivation and the expanding self

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 30 (3):343-370 (2000)
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According to a popular contemporary contractualist account of moral motivation, the most plausible explanation for why those who are concerned with morality take moral reasons seriously — why these reasons strike those who are moved by them with a particular inescapability — is that they stem from, and are grounded by, a desire to be able to justify one’s actions to others on grounds they could not reasonably reject.1 My

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10.1080/00455091.2000.10717536

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