What we owe to each other /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scanlon, Thomas
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Subjects:	Right and wrong. Judgment (Ethics) Values. Judgement (Ethics) Rectitude. Jugement (Morale) Ethiek. Das Böse. Das Gute. Moralisches Urteil. Bien (Morale) Éthique. Mal.

Table of Contents:

1. Reasons and values
1. Reasons
2. Values
3. Well-being
2. Right and wrong
4. Wrongness and reasons
5. The structure of contractualism
6. Responsibility
7. Promises
8. Relativism.