The Ambitions of Contract as Promise Thirty Years On ... - UCL
The Ambitions of Contract as Promise Thirty Years On ... - UCL
The Ambitions of Contract as Promise Thirty Years On ... - UCL
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<strong>Ambitions</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Contract</strong> As <strong>Promise</strong> 24 August 2012 discussion draft: do not quote or reproduce without permission<br />
one—which <strong>of</strong> the two is the better theory. <strong>The</strong> incompleteness <strong>of</strong> the promise<br />
principle does not reveal a weakness in Kantian theory, nor does it prove that<br />
utilitarianism’s own comprehensive claims are somehow stronger. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
moments <strong>of</strong> incompleteness, these occ<strong>as</strong>ions where we must go beyond the<br />
promise principle, show only that promise is not a general moral, legal and<br />
political theory. It does not purport to be. Of course if utilitarianism really is<br />
the better general theory, then its account <strong>of</strong> the subsidiary issue <strong>of</strong> a legal<br />
institution like contract is bound to be better and deeper too. But that question<br />
remains open.<br />
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