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The medium-term effect of neo-liberal Conservative policy in has been to destroy ethos in institutions such as the Civil Service and the National Health Service by remodelling them on contractualist and managerialist lines.
The credit crunch will do for Margaret Thatcher's reputation 2009
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The example of pediatric research makes the further point that justification of non-beneficial research on straightforward contractualist grounds will be difficult at best.
The Ethics of Clinical Research Wendler, David 2009
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For the Scanlonian contractualist, by contrast, agents are morally motivated by an intrinsic desire to justify themselves to others.
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Animals are not a special problem for the contractualist, but rather an opportunity to explore what is distinctive about the contractualist approach.
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“Reasonable reasons in contractualist moral argument”, Ethics, 114, pp. 6-37.
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As a minor point, one might perfectly coherently be a contractualist about political justice without being a contractualist tout court.
Confusionism 2007
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For this reason, I think that the self-ownership thesis cannot be justified by natural law or ethical intuitionism, but instead must be understood as a generalization about a whole set of intuitions or specifications of the natural law as a contractualist, I think it must be justified as a rough generalization of a wide array of justificatory relationships.
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A contractualist approach to the nonidentity problem will focus on the legitimate expectations future persons have in respect of the agents whose acts cause them both to exist and suffer.
The Nonidentity Problem Roberts, Melinda 2009
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By the standards he applies in his piece libertarianism itself is a “contingent political alliance,” because Kantian, utilitarian, existentialist, natural law, Randian, contractualist (and so on, and so on) moral views all conflict to various degrees.
Feser’s on Stun 2007
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Using a contractualist framework, he surmised that rational contractors would choose a rule of justice requiring positions to be awarded by competence.
Affirmative Action Fullinwider, Robert 2009
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