Contractualism and Restrictions

Philosophical Studies 132 (2):293-299 (2007)
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T.M. Scanlon writes that deontological constraints on taking lives are to be defended “by considering what principles licensing others to take our lives could be reasonably rejected.” I argue that Scanlon can offer no such defence of deontological constraints

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What we owe to each other.Thomas Scanlon - 1998 - Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Contractualism and aggregation.Sophia Reibetanz - 1998 - Ethics 108 (2):296-311.
Replies.T. M. Scanlon - 2002 - Social Theory and Practice 28 (2):337-358.

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