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THE KANTIAN ARGUMENT FOR CONSEQUENTIALISM
Author(s) -
Otsuka Michael
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2008.00417.x
Subject(s) - consequentialism , contractualism , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , philosophy , sort , law and economics , sociology , computer science , chemistry , biochemistry , information retrieval
A critical examination of Parfit's attempt to reconcile Kantian contractualism with consequentialism, which disputes his contention that the contracting parties would lack decisive reasons to choose principles that ground prohibitions against harming of the sort to which non‐consequentialists have been attracted. 1