PHILOS 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Political Philosophy, Contractualism, T. M. Scanlon
26 Oct 2017
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The central concept is equal moral worth (as opposed to self-interest) "informed agreement" rules out superstition and false beliefs. Reasonable" rules out unreasonable rejection of agreement. Unforced" rules out coercion and unequal bargaining position. A particularly self-sacri cing person could reasonably accept severe burdens/ hardships. But it wouldn"t be unreasonable for a person to reject such burdens: the scope of morality. Morality applies to a being if the notion of justi cation to a being of that kind makes sense. The being [must] constitute a point of view; that is, that there be such a thing as what it is like to be that being, such a thing as what the world seems like to it. The capacity to feel pain seems also to satisfy the three conditions . One is a party to the contract as long as one constitute[s] a point of view contrast this with gauthier"s reciprocity requirement: dependence on conventions.
