Fair point about it being a broad family of theories, Zach. What’s the claim that you take Scanlonian contractualism not to entail? The bit about not comparing the individual’s claim to aid to the group’s? Or the bit about who you should help?
Both. As you note, Scanlonian contractualism is about reasonable-rejection.
(Personally, I think it’s kinda appealing to consider contractualism for deriving principles, e.g. via rational-rejection or more concretely via veil-of-ignorance. I’m much less compelled by thinking in terms of claims-to-aid. I kinda assert that deriving-principles is much more central to contractualism; I notice that https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractualism/ doesn’t use “claim,” “aid,” or “assistance” in the relevant sense, but does use “principle.”)
Fair point about it being a broad family of theories, Zach. What’s the claim that you take Scanlonian contractualism not to entail? The bit about not comparing the individual’s claim to aid to the group’s? Or the bit about who you should help?
Both. As you note, Scanlonian contractualism is about reasonable-rejection.
(Personally, I think it’s kinda appealing to consider contractualism for deriving principles, e.g. via rational-rejection or more concretely via veil-of-ignorance. I’m much less compelled by thinking in terms of claims-to-aid. I kinda assert that deriving-principles is much more central to contractualism; I notice that https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractualism/ doesn’t use “claim,” “aid,” or “assistance” in the relevant sense, but does use “principle.”)
(Probably not going to engage more on this.)
Ah, I see. Yeah, we discuss this explicitly in Section 2. The language in the executive summary is a simplification.