Christoph Luetge takes on a fundamental problem of contemporary
political philosophy and ethics. He questions the often implicit
assumption of many contemporary political philosophers according to
which a society needs its citizens to adopt some shared basic
qualities, views or capabilities (here termed a moral surplus).
Luetge examines the respective theories of, among others, Habermas,
Rawls, Gauthier, Buchanan, and Binmore with a focus on their
respective moral surpluses. He finds that each moral surplus is
either not necessary for the stability of societies or cannot
remain stable when faced with opposing incentives. Binmore's idea
of empathy is the only one that is, at least partly, not confronted
with this dilemma. Luetge provides an alternative view termed order
ethics, which weakens the necessary assumptions for modern
societies and basically only relies on mutual advantages as the
fundamental basis of society.
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