ABSTRACT
One of the major metaphysical assumptions that an ethical theory can make is an assumption about the nature of personal identity. V. Haksar believes that the particular moral judgements derivable from John Rawls' form of contract theory depend on a presupposition of the persistent self. Haksar believes that Rawls' contractarianism assumes the truth of the simple view of personal identity. The chapter looks at the particular moral judgements that Haksar claims do depend on the simple view and shows that impartialist contractarianism can generate these judgements or else show that impartialist contractarianism can reject these particular moral judgements without depending on any metaphysical view of personal identity in either case.
