Political Philosophy
right over the good, which Rawls explicitly claims to be a central feature of his conception of justice.^57 I will have somethin ...
the principles of justice represent the best means to advance them. Now Thomas Hobbes did hold this kind of egoistic view in res ...
The famous two principles of justice are deemed to be a special case of this: First Principle. Each person is to have an equal r ...
the primary goods unless an unequal distribution is to the advan- tage of the least well off. Why should anyone placed behind th ...
we climb the mountain or do we stay at home and go out in the afternoon to see a film. Climbing the mountain, one of us may slip ...
Chapter 2, the utilitarian has reason to believe that the sorts of allocation that maximize utility will be those that tend towa ...
notwithstanding their lesser holdings are greater than they would possess under equality, they are treated as, or come to see th ...
and (moderately) successful practice – that we can identify society as a co-operative venture for mutual advantage. How else? We ...
conclusions to defeat opposing intuitions.^69 ) What Rawls has in mind as a system of political and economic organization which ...
will be argued that the reward of desert is an established principle of justice. So much the worse for a theory of justice that ...
these are the sort of individual qualities that are sought out in the labour market under conditions of fair equality of opportu ...
deliberative stance it is hard to see how any principle other than the modified equality of the diffference principle could find ...
pretheoretical commitment to fairness, but critics may charge that this manoeuvre is unnecessary or unsuccessful. They may ask w ...
Rawls has allocated to the theoretically inert realm of the ‘thick conception of the good’. Take Holy Willie, the subject of Bur ...
Position. It might be even harder to stick with the principles of justice furnished by this ethical stance once the thought- exp ...
Chapter 6 Political obligation The problems Alfred Russell Whitehead is said to have said that all philosophy is a series of foo ...
arguments and the development of challenges to it: the problem of political obligation. In the Crito, Socrates is invited to col ...
wait upon its outcome, I shall do no more here than register my doubts. In the second place, our chief interest is in the specif ...
customary association of political and legal obligation, and since I don’t want to beg the conceptual questions canvassed above, ...
successively widen the net over those it seeks to convince of its legitimate authority. The following outcomes are possible: (a) ...
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