Summary
T. M. Scanlon: Moral Contractualism "According to contractualism, the well-being of individuals is morally significant not because it is intrinsically valuable or because it is self-evident that the promotion of the well-being of individuals is a right-making quality, but simply because an individual could reasonably reject an argument that would give no significance to his well-being." T. M. Scanlon "Scanlon claims that if he dropped the individualist constraint, his contractualist theory would no longer offer a 'clear alternative to utilitarianism.'
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