PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Contract, Contractualism
2 Apr 2018
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Rational actions become unreasonable when other agents have good reason to reject the principles upon which such actions are based. The moral content of reasonableness is located in the principles providing justification for either permitting or prohibiting certain actions in certain circumstances. If it is reasonable to reject any principle that would permit someone to do something in a certain circumstance, then it is reasonable to accept the converse principle prohibiting such action (283) An act is wrong if it would be disallowed by any principle that no one could reasonably reject (284) Consider: judging an act to be wrong involves the identification of a certain act that does not sufficiently admit of justification the objection is inherently principle-based. Moral principles: moral permissions or prohibitions dependent on a complex understanding of what justifications for reasonably expected actions are considered im/permissible (286-7)
