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    Scanlon's contractualism produces action-justifications t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→One cannot genuinely justify an action without reference to a moral sense.

    Scanlon's contractualism produces action-justifications that are intersubjectively valid precisely because they bypass individual affective states like moral sense.

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    • 1.Moral sense varies across individuals; contractualism grounds justification in rational agreement, achieving objectivity independent of subjective feeling.
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    • 2.Principles justified by their non-rejectability to all parties have binding force precisely because they transcend particular emotional responses or preferences.
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    • 3.Intersubjective validity requires a common currency; rational contractual reasoning provides this where affective states create irreducible disagreement.
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    • 1.Rational contractors themselves possess affective dispositions that shape what they find acceptable; bypassing affect doesn't eliminate its hidden influence.
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    • 2.Ignoring moral sense may exclude motivationally essential features: empathy and emotional recognition often constitute why acts genuinely matter morally.
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    • 3.Intersubjective validity from hypothetical agreement differs from actual justifiability to affected persons; abstraction can obscure rather than resolve disagreement.
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