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MATTHEW SCHERER Though the animus expressed in the piece, not to mention the forum in which it is published, renders it suspect, ...

SAINT JOHN provokes sustained debate. It is a measure of its greatness that John Rawls’sA Theory of Justiceinspired not one deba ...

MATTHEW SCHERER sche has given it to us, as the culmination, though still unwitting, of the long goodbye European culture pays t ...

SAINT JOHN version to be achieved turns man toward the life of republican, or civic, virtue rather than toward God. He continues ...

MATTHEW SCHERER tics. But, according to Rousseau,there is nothing in man’s original nature to stir in him reverence for the law, ...

SAINT JOHN Therefore, Rousseau concludes: ‘‘This [paradox] is what has always forced the fathers of nations to have recourse to ...

MATTHEW SCHERER insist that the better part of Rawls’s saintly wisdom depends upon his unacknowledged appeals to registers of th ...

SAINT JOHN credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others...his character may almost be called the most e ...

MATTHEW SCHERER discernment, we find in Rawls’s prose the passive voice, demonstrative sentences, myriad simple formulations, an ...

SAINT JOHN Rawls does present summary accounts of what utilitarian and perfectionist theories hold to be competing bases for mor ...

MATTHEW SCHERER namely, that the human capacity for reason is the basis for moral considerations, and the force of his rhetorica ...

SAINT JOHN could accept when these obligations have been so diligently, carefully, judiciously, sensi- bly, and painstakingly ob ...

MATTHEW SCHERER reflect on the matter at hand, values, principles, and standards are so formulated and arranged that they are fr ...

SAINT JOHN universal form, as to the desired qualities of the exemplary Christian Life.’’^50 Hagiography functions to preserve t ...

MATTHEW SCHERER ever, Rawls did consent to undertake some form of autobiography. He authorized Thomas Pogge, a former student an ...

SAINT JOHN of Rawls’s semi-autobiographical sketch, which takes up a mere fourteen printed pages, is the power with which it con ...

MATTHEW SCHERER refrain from certain conversations—serve the function of assuaging persistent modes of suffering. What this sugg ...

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Reinhabiting Civil Disobedience Bhrigupati Singh To clarify it again, what, then, is the difference between religion and philoso ...