Author : Ron Replogle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847675913
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (759 download)
Book Synopsis Recovering the Social Contract by : Ron Replogle
Download or read book Recovering the Social Contract written by Ron Replogle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author defends a novel philosophical thesis about the nature and foundation of moral rights. The thesis maintains that rights-claims derive their credibility from a distinctive idea of equality according to which persons are not just equally valuable but equally invaluable. The egalitarian ideal derives its normative content from widely acknowledged norms of competence that are distinguishable from and conceptually prior to the norms of rationality and morality that have exercised contemporary theorists of rational choice and justice. When its nature and foundation are appreciated, rights-based justice can be seen to be more powerful and, in an important sense, less ideological than alternative conceptions. In defending this view, the author considers how ideology corrupts thinking about justice and maintains that contemporary theorists are ideological in a sense that disqualifies them from setting credible normative standards.