Social PhilosophyM.E. Sharpe, 26/03/1999 This short and accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic--a publicly justified morality. It presents clear analyses of the basic concepts, including justifications of liberty, harm to others, private property rights, distributive justice, environmental harms, help to others and offensive behavior. Gaus acquaints the reader with the major figures in social philosophy--John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, John Rawls, David Gauthier, and Joel Feinberg--as well as recent communitarian philosophers. The basic technical aspects of social philosophy are also introduced: game theory, social choice theory, the ideas rational action, rational bargaining, and public goods. Throughout, helpful short examples and stories are used to illustrate the material. |
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Moral Authoritarianism and Relativism | 3 |
12 The Suspicion That Morality Is Authoritarian | 6 |
The Easy Way Out? | 9 |
14 Public Morality and Cooperation | 16 |
15 Summary | 17 |
Public Justification | 19 |
22 Actual Assent Views of Public Justification | 20 |
23 Justification Among Purely Rational People | 21 |
62 Two Key Criticisms of Rawlss Contractual Theory | 101 |
63 Liberal Contractualism | 106 |
64 Summary | 113 |
A Framework for Public Morality | 115 |
Liberty | 117 |
72 Mills Case for Liberty of Action | 122 |
73 Autonomy | 128 |
74 Summary | 135 |
24 Public Justification and Reasonableness | 23 |
25 Consensus and Convergence Justifications | 27 |
Valuepromoting Public Moralities | 29 |
32 Competing Values and Public Justification | 32 |
Wide Consensus on Basic Goods | 35 |
Communitarianism | 39 |
35 Summary | 46 |
Utilitarianism as a Public Morality | 47 |
42 Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarianism | 48 |
43 Wantsatisfaction Utilitarianism | 50 |
44 The Problems of Interpersonal Comparisons and Aggregating Preferences | 54 |
45 Is Value Impersonal? | 58 |
46 Nonteleological Utilitarianism | 60 |
47 Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy | 63 |
48 Summary | 67 |
Strong Contractualism | 69 |
52 Simple NeoHobbesianism | 73 |
53 Gauthiers Reformulation of Hobbesian Moral Contractualism | 83 |
54 Is Strong Contractualism Really About Social Morality? | 87 |
55 Summary | 90 |
Weak Contractualism | 92 |
The Harm Principle | 136 |
82 Psychological Harms | 140 |
83 Is It Always a Harm to Set Back an Interest? | 144 |
84 Risk of Harm | 151 |
85 Harmful Acts and Omissions | 154 |
86 Summary | 158 |
Property | 160 |
92 Lockean Theory and the Proviso | 163 |
Compensation for Losses | 167 |
94 Desert Distributive Justice and Property | 172 |
95 Summary | 177 |
Public Harms and Common Goods | 179 |
102 The Public Goods Principle | 187 |
103 Common Goods | 191 |
104 Summary | 195 |
Two QuasiMillian Principles | 197 |
112 Paternalism | 199 |
113 Offense | 210 |
114 Summary | 218 |
Notes | 221 |
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