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contractualism: a standalone construct

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Ethics

the view that an act is wrong if any principle permitting it could reasonably be rejected by those affected.

In ethics, contractualism refers to the view that an act is wrong if any principle permitting it could reasonably be rejected by those affected. This meaning comes from Scanlon (2000) in What We Owe to Each Other.[1]

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Scanlon, T. M. (2000). What We Owe to Each Other. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv134vmrn

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