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Contractualism and consequentialist accounts thus gloss what is objectionable about the same conduct in different ways.
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How does Scanlonian Contractualism differ from other social contract theories?
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“The Demandingness of Scanlon's Contractualism”, Ethics 113 (2), pp. 273-302.
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Contractualism can thus produce principles that balance the interests of different people against one another, without explicit appeal to aggregation.
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How does Scanlonian Contractualism differ from other social contract theories?
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Despite these differences, Scanlonian Contractualism does have several points in common with other contractualist theories.
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Yet it seems that Contractualism cannot capture this intuition.
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A similar problem for Contractualism is presented by Thomas Nagel, who argues that, in the present state of the world, it may be impossible to construct any set of principles which no-one can reasonably reject.
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How Does Contractualism differ from utilitarianism?
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“Defending the moral moderate: Contractualism and Commonsense”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 28, pp. 275-309.
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