What We Owe to Each Other Author:T. M. Scanlon According to T. M. Scanlon's contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he demonstrat... more »es how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. "What We Owe to Each Other brings to fruition a project that Tim Scanlon first outlined in a much-read article that he published in the early 1980s: to give morality, personal and political, a novel, contractualist reconstrual. That project has gripped the imagination of the philosophical community for the past decade, and this fuller description of it will be widely welcomed...I rejoice in the appearance of this magnificent book. It is not often that a work on ethics opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years. And What We Owe to Each Other does precisely that." —Times Literary Supplement« less