Houjun Liu

SU-PHIL2 MAY082025

Prichard’s Dilemma

“Why do the right thing?”

  • give some extra-moral reason (bad, because you maybe are acting in self-interest)
  • give some moral reason (“I do the right thing because its right”, tautology)

Kantian Contractualism

“rules that would be agreed to by people trying to share a world as equals”

scanlon

what no one commuted to sharing a world could reasonably reject as a basis of informed, unforced general agreement

  1. substantive (sharing a world, presupposed content to what is a value) rather than formal
  2. restricted (moral)
  3. proceduralist (its about following a procedure, irrespective of what the output is)