https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Significance-of-Choice https://booksandideas.net/The-Significance-of-Choice 2012-07-11T06:14:03Z text/html en Yascha Mounk Philosophy United States of America crime Europe ethics The Utopian Text Interviews <p><span class="caps">T. M.</span> Scanlon is one of the most highly regarded moral philosophers working today. The prime architect of contemporary contractualism in ethics, he has, besides his masterwork, What We Owe to Each Other, written transformative treatises on topics ranging from the significance of choice to the nature of permissibility, meaning and blame. With Yascha Mounk, he thinks back on his intellectual upbringing, tolerance, free will, morality, and the future of liberalism.</p>