Author: T. M. Scanlon
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: owe
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $59.50
ISBN-10: 0674950895
ISBN-13: 9780674950894

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about

Author: Liz Garton Scanlon
Publisher: Beach Lane Books
Keywords: world
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1416985808
ISBN-13: 9781416985808

All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now. Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky

Author: Matt Matravers
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contractualism, scanlon
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-03-05
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0714655732
ISBN-13: 9780714655734

This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon’s contractualism and his revised understandings of motivation and morality. The essays illustrate the uses of Scanlon’s contractualism by applying it to moral and political problems and in so doing they provide an assessment of the ability of Scanlon’s contractualism by applying it to other forms of ethical theory. The resulting volume makes an important and original contribution to the lite

Author: Thomas F. Scanlon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: athletics, greek, eros
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2002-02-07
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195149858
ISBN-13: 9780195149852

Ancient Greek athletics offer us a clear window on many important aspects of ancient culture, some of which have distinct parallels with modern sports and their place in our society. Ancient athletics were closely connected with religion, the formation of young men and women in their gender roles, and the construction of sexuality. Eros was, from one perspective, a major god of the gymnasium where homoerotic liaisons reinforced the traditional hierarchies of Greek culture. But Eros in the athletic sphere was also a symbol of life-affirming friendship and even of political freedom in the face o

Author: T. M. Scanlon
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: blame, meaning, permissibility, dimensions, moral
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674031784
ISBN-13: 9780674031784

In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agent’s reasons for performing an action. For example, there seems to be an important moral difference between tactical bombing and a campaign by terrorists—even if the same number of non-combatants are killed—and this difference may seem to lie in the agents’ respective aims. However, Scanlon argues that the apparent dependence of permissibility on the agent’s reasons in such cases is merely a failure to d

Author: Julie Scanlon
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Keywords: literature, thinking, boundaries, crossing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-06
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1841272329
ISBN-13: 9781841272320

An eclectic collection of studies ranging through nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film and provoking theoretical and critical reflections. This eclectic collection interrogates boundaries with reference to nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film from a diverse range of critical and theoretical perspectives. The authors probe the issue of negotiating boundaries in their innovative and imaginative investigations of science in Dickens, Eliot and Pater; narrative in Hawking and Weinberg; Bakhtin and the feminization of translatio

Author: T. M. Scanlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: philosophy, political, essays, tolerance, difficulty
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2003-08-18
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521533988
ISBN-13: 9780521533980

Written between 1969 and 1999, these essays in political philosophy examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. The collection includes the classic essays "Preference and Urgency", "A Theory of Freedom of Expression", and "Contractualism and Utilitarianism", as well as other essays that have not been generally accessible until now. The volume will be essential reading for all studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.