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| Title: | Occurrent Contractarianism: A Preference-Based Ethical Theory |
| Authors: | Murray, Malcolm |
| Keywords: | Philosophy
contractarian
ethics |
| Approved Date: | 1995 |
| Date Submitted: | 1995 |
| Abstract: | There is a problem within contractarian ethics that I wish to resolve. It concerns individualpreferences. Contractarianism holds that morality, properly conceived, can satisfy individualpreferences and interests better than amorality or immorality. W hat is unclear, however, iswhether these preferences are those individuals actually hold or those that they should hold. The goal of my thesis is to investigate this question. I introduce a version of contractarian ethicsthat relies on ind ividual preferences in a manner more stringent than has been in the literatureto date. |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/757 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Arts Theses and Dissertations
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