Reasonable rejectability
The standard that a principle is unacceptable if someone could reasonably refuse to live under it.
What it commits you to
Scanlon's test asks whether a principle could be reasonably rejected by someone whose interests it affects, judging rejection in the light of what that person can recognise. It grounds obligation in reasons offered to each person rather than in a chooser maximising an objective. It is the most directly usable of the contractualist criteria for questions about who must be consulted.
Which realms lean on this
Philosophy carries the arguments the other four kinds are downstream of — what an agent is, what a person owes, what a rule is for.
philosophy · 8 realms — The Care Weft, The Contractual Court, The Existential Wilds, The Kantian Citadel, The Longview Foundry, The Middle Kingdom, The Pragmatic Wharf, The Sangha Terraces.
See also
Original position
philosophyThe hypothetical forum at which principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
Veil of ignorance
philosophyA device for choosing principles without knowing which position in society you will occupy.
Legitimacy
philosophyThe right to be obeyed, held by a rule or authority rather than by its author.
Meaningful human control
ethicsA standard requiring that a human have the time, information and authority to intervene.