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Whether the causal order of nature is deterministic or partly random, people do not create themselves. So how can it...
Vol. 48 No. 9 · 21 May 2026 I’m not sorry Thomas Nagel Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 2807 words Morality and Responsibility by T.M. Scanlon . Polity, 254 pp., £18.99, April 2025, 978 1 5095 6697 6 Show More Show More T he appearance ​ of a new ethical theory is a rare event, but it happened in 1982 with the publication of T.M. Scanlon's essay 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism'. Although he called his theory contractualism, Scanlon does not postulate an actual social contract between the members of a society, like Hobbes, or a hypothetical contract under imag
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