Abstract

This chapter discusses the misgivings about the concepts of consequentialism and contractualism. It shows that neither consequentialism nor contractualism can succeed in accommodating the three elements of morality described previously: impartial beneficence, prerogatives and restrictions. Though contractualists deny that morality includes a principle of impartial beneficence, and consequentialists deny that impartial beneficence is encumbered by prerogatives and restrictions, this chapter proves that the three principles can be fitted within one morality theory.