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: Stephen Darwell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: philosophy, readings, blackwell, contractualism, contractarianism
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0631231102
ISBN-13: 9780631231103

Contractualism/Contractarianism collects, for the first time, both major classical sources and central contemporary discussions of these important approaches to philosophical ethics. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative ethics.With a helpful introduction by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in the contractarian and contractualist moral theory.Includes six contemporary essays which respond to the classic sources.Includes an insightful discussion of contractualism by Gary Watson.Includes classic excerpts by key figures such

Authors:Els Sol, Mies Westerveld,
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: employment, governance, studies, policy, state, social, welfare, services, new, form, contractualism
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2005-08-12
List price: $162.00
ISBN-10: 9041124055
ISBN-13: 9789041124050

For the modern welfare state support for those who are `out of work through no fault of their own remains a foundation stone. Now, however, under pressure form market-driven ideology focused on business performance, its composition and the way support is delivered is in a state of flux. With the avowed objective of minimizing dependence on social benefits and increasing labour market efficiency, many national policies with varying degrees of thoroughness are shifting from a bureaucratic approach to some form of contract arrangement that demands a higher level of personal respon