Looking back at T.M. Scanlon's "What We Owe To Each Other" & the TV show it influenced

(NEW YORK, NY) – T.M. Scanlon wrote What We Owe to Each Other over two decades, very much exemplifying the Contractualist ethics that he outlines in the aforementioned book, taking elements of great Social Contract theorists like Rousseau and deontological thinkers like Immanuel Kant, forming his own type of that which, he calls (as I do) “Contractualism.” A philosophy of moral ethics that is fundamentally grounded in the rules of social engagement and engagement with the outside world that we, as humans, decide with each other among small groups. 

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