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Ideas for 'The Value Problem', 'Against the Professors (six books)' and 'Structure and Ontology'

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23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

6032	Right actions, once done, are those with a reasonable justification [Sext.Empiricus]
	Full Idea: Right action is whatever, once it has been done, has a reasonable justification.
	From: Sextus Empiricus (Against the Professors (six books) [c.180], 7.158)
	A reaction: Why does he add 'once it has been done'? Wouldn't a proposed action be right if it had a reasonable justification? This grows out of the classical and Stoic emphasis on reason in ethics, and leads towards Scanlon's Contractualism.