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Occurrent Contractarianism: A Preference-Based Ethical Theory

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1995

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Murray, Malcolm

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University of Waterloo

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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.

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Philosophy, contractarian, ethics

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http://hdl.handle.net/10012/757

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