Scanlon's contractual framework logically entails that rejectable principles cannot form the basis of legitimate social rules, forcing convergence on difference-principle redistribution.
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# Scanlon
Tim Scanlon is an influential American philosopher known for developing a theory of ethics based on the idea that actions are right if they could be justified to others through principles everyone could reasonably accept. Rather than focusing on happiness or duty, his approach emphasizes what we can defend to each other as fair-minded people, making morality fundamentally about mutual respect and agreement. He's considered one of the most important moral philosophers of our time because his ideas have reshaped how philosophers think about fairness, responsibility, and what we owe to one another.
convergence(alternative to consensus-based public reason)
A model of public justification that allows appeals to religious reasons, thereby not requiring exclusively secular justifications
logically entails(used to describe the relationship between S# and statement (14))
If one statement logically entails another, it means the second statement must be true whenever the first one is true—there's no way around it.