ABSTRACT
It is generally recognized that in today's society, academic philosophers have very little impact on moral and political decision making. The most ambitious attempts to justify morality have tried to show that endorsing egoism or immorality is somehow inconsistent. Now, to defend or justify morality, it would be helpful to show that morality is grounded in rationality. This chapter attempts to derive morality from this principle of rationality. While morality as compromise can be seen as rationally preferable to both egoism and altruism, and thus helps to establish the justification of morality over those two perspectives, it is anything but a complete moral perspective. The chapter argues from a conception of rationality as non-question-beggingness to the incomplete moral perspective of morality as compromise. It also argues that completing this conception of morality with respect to the enforcement question leads to substantial equality.
