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21. The Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 70 > Issue: 18
Lawrence Kohlberg The Claim to Moral Adequacy of a Highest Stage of Moral Judgment
... dieory of the social contract as found, say, in Locke, Rousseau and ... social contract and of utilitarianism. In terms of description ... rights, social contract, and utility are "natural structures ...
22. The Philosophical Review: Volume > 87 > Issue: 4
Paul Gomberg Political Violence
... against it) and an argument by Rawls that in Britain and the U.S. there ... calls this "the contract argument" for Rawls's conception of justice and ... wealthy) that has the most autonomy in making social decisions and by ...
23. The Southern Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 20 > Issue: 2
Michael Davis Smith, Gert, and Obligation to Obey the Law
... obligation, and because Gert seems to be success ful in providing a proof of that 0 ... sacrifice-in reliance-upon-others-making-similar-sacrifices Hart and Rawls des cribe ... of traditional social contract theory (that is, those theories seeking to ...
24. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
Russ Manning Environmental Ethics and Rawls’ Theory of Justice
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Although John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice does not deal specifically with the ethics of environmental concerns, it can generally be applied to give justification for the prudent and continent use of our natural resources. The argument takes two forms: one dealing with the immediate effects of environmental impact and the other, delayed effects. Immediate effects, which impact the present society, should besubject to environmental controls because they affect health and opportunity, social primary goods to be dispensed by society. Delayed environmental impacts, affecting future generations, are also subject to control because future generations have a just claim upon our natural resources-the generation to which a person belongs is an arbitrary contingency which should not exclude persons not yet born from consideration in the original contract of society.
... theories of justice and social ethics is John Rawls' A Theory o/lustice1 in which he ... be based. Here can be seen a central issue in Rawls' theory. Individuals, and by ... Environmental Ethics and RawlsTheory of Justice ...
25. Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy: Volume > 3
William Soderberg Human Genetic Modifications and Parental Perspectives
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The utilitarian argument of John Harris and the libertarian position of Ronald Green concerning genetic modifications of children omit a parental perspective. John Rawls proposes that the negotiators of obligations to future generations be viewed as heads of families. Drawing upon John Rawls, Erik Malmqvist, and Michael Sandel, I defend four claims: first, in seeking to balance social stability, autonomy, and general welfare the negotiators of obligations to future generations would assign priority to social stability; secondly, the negotiators would preserve a distinction between therapeutic and non-therapeutic human genetic modifications; thirdly, they would rule out non-therapeutic genetic modifications of children; finally, the negotiators would endorse a right not to be discriminated against on the basis of genotype.
... in varying degrees - in the face of classic injustices and social emergencies ... question of obligations to future generations. The social contract theory of ... as heads of families. Drawing upon John Rawls, Erik Malmqvist, and Michael Sandel ...
26. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 26 > Issue: 2
Geoffrey Rees Original Sin in the Original Position: A Kierkegaardian Reading of John Rawls's Writings on Justice
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AMONG THEOLOGICAL WRITERS, MANY HAVE SUSPECTED THAT JOHN Rawls's writings on justice add up to a de facto manifesto of secularism. His writings especially provoke anxiety about the potential exclusion of theological affirmations from public political discourse. Much of this anxiety focuses on his concept of the "original position" from which principles of justice are negotiated. Consideration of the anxiety provoked by this concept, however, suggests that it is theologically richer than Rawls's critics allow. A turn to Søren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety enables interpretation of the original position as a device of representation that identifies every individual with the fact of original sin. Crucial to this interpretation is Kierkegaard's description of original sin in terms of anxiety that arises from the innocence that is ignorance in the comparable original position of Adam. Where anxiety arises, sin follows. Where sin arises, the need for justice follows. Reading Rawls and Kierkegaard together consequently offers insight into the relevance of the history of the doctrine of original sin to contemporary theorization of justice.
... speaks to a parallel concern in Rawls's version of a social contract to relate the ... altogether. The procedural and deliberative constraints stipulated in Rawls ... huge apparent differences between Rawls and Kierkegaard, exemphfied in the ...
27. Southwest Philosophy Review: Volume > 22 > Issue: 1
Walter Riker Reading (and Misreading) Rawls’s Theory of Legitimacy
... H:art and Soper, Rawls's theory is not grounded in agreement. It is grounded in ... Reading (and Misreading) Rawls’s Theory of Legitimacy ... Reading (and Misreading) Rawls's Theory of Legitimacy Walter Riker University ...
28. The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics: Organizational Ethics and The Good Life
Edwin Hartman Notes
... suggested in Ch. 2 and shall argue in Ch. 5, moral obligation will nec essarily be ... , his views in Ch. 4. I think contract theory makes more sense as a view about ... barely qualifies as a social contract theory. Early contract theories offered to ...
29. Philosophy Today: Volume > 57 > Issue: 1
Samia Hesni Personhood, Promises, and the Politics of Narrative: A Ricoeurian Critique of Rawls’s Theory of Justice
... societal ethics and morality? In his Theory of Justice, John Rawls ... produced in response to Rawls’s theory, French philosopher Paul ... grounded in ethics. Both his critique and his vision evoke a theory ...
30. Canadian Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 14 > Issue: 2
John McMurtry The Problem of Political Obligation: A Critical Analysis of Liberal Theory
... 9-10.) The obligation that is generated by the social contract and its conse ... ’ obligation to it. Though their arguments are thus unalike in both construction and ... society, you have the obligation to oppose its preventable oppressions and in ...
31. Idealistic Studies: Volume > 9 > Issue: 3
Robert L. Armstrong, Jay A. Knaack How Are Obligations to Oneself Possible?
...,” one which defines obligation in terms of coercion and the social-moral model ... cases of social and moral obligation. The second model, the Rousseau-Hart-Rawls ... The concept of obligation occupies a central position in democratic, social ...
32. The Yale Philosophy Review: Volume > 3
Alice Evans Are We Bound to Uphold Rawlsian Justice?
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A Theory of Justice maintains that we are morally bound to further those institutional arrangements that support those principles that would have been agreed to by contracting parties in the original position. However, some critics have rejected the implicit premise that hypothetical contracts yield contractual obligations. But this critique is misplaced according to a different interpretation of the contract’s role. Rawls arguably claims that justice is binding and that in virtue of specifying the content of justice the hypothetical contract is likewise binding. To determine whether we are bound to uphold Rawlsian justice, I shall discuss both approaches and then further analyse charges of triviality, circularity, an alleged similarity to intuitionism and the contractarian rebuttal of utilitarianism.
... contract’s role. Rawls arguably claims that justice is binding and that in virtue of ... . Rawls arguably claims that justice is binding and that in virtue of specifying the ... , M.H. “Promissory Obligations and Rawls’s Contractarianism” in Analysis ...
33. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Michael Corrado Review of Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership, by Martha Craven Nussbaum
.... II. The Critique of Rawls: The Social Contract Tradition and the Kantian ... from the social contract tradition in which Rawls writes, one ... show its superiority. In FJ her target is Rawls and ...
34. Deutsches Jahrbuch Philosophie: Volume > 2
Alexander Brink Legitimität und Verantwortung in Netzwerken: Auf der Suche nach einer normativen Theorie der Unternehmung
.... The focal organization has no moral obligation to these groups and individuals in ... / A. M. Marcoux, »Freeman and Evan: Stakeholder Theory in the ... The normative component of stakeholder theory plays a central role in the concept ...
35. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 2
Kimberly K. Smith Animals and the Social Contract: A Reply to Nussbaum
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In The Frontiers of Justice, Martha Nussbaum argues that social contract theory cannot accommodate political duties to animals because it requires the parties to the contract to enjoy rough physical and mental equality. Her interpretation of the social contract tradi­tion is unpersuasive; social contract theory requires only that the parties be equally free and deserving of moral consideration. Moreover, social contract theory is superior to her capabilities approach in that it allows us to limit the scope of the community of justice to animals we are capable of recognizing as subjects of justice and with whom we have a political relationship.
...In The Frontiers of Justice, Martha Nussbaum argues that social contract theory ... and deserving of moral consideration. Moreover, social contract theory is superior ... theory in part because social contract theory cannot properly include animals within ...
36. The Review of Metaphysics: Volume > 41 > Issue: 4
Kenneth Baynes Democratic Liberalism and Social Union
... conception of the self and account of political and civil obligation. In this ambitious ... fate of contract law, debates over the welfare state and constitutional theory are ... finally arguments about the ideals present in a form of social life and what is ...
37. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 8 > Issue: 2
Bernard Boxill Theories of Justice and the United Nations Declaration on Establishment of a New International Economic Order
... none of this. In John Rawls' contractarian theory, for example, the principles of ... ." Contractarian theory as formulated by Rawls lends itself easily and plausibly to a defense ... made, repeatedly and unambiguously, in the name of justice. Thus it presupposed a ...
38. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 15
Andreas Follesdal Global Ethics and Respect for Culture
... they can be justified by arguments in the form of a social contract of a particular ... Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971) and ... considering several norms endorsed in the document: domestic democracy and fight for equal ...
39. Canadian Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 19 > Issue: 3
Wesley Cooper Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory
... quirement than Rawls's theory. As a contributor to social contract theory, Kavka can ... Hobbesian tendencies. They view this century's advances in game theory and related ... preference for pursuing the development of a moral and political theory in the spirit ...
40. Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies: Volume > 12
Ralph Nelson Between Inconsistent Nominalists and Egalitarian Idealists
.... 61 John Rawls, A Theory o f Justice, p. 241 and pp. 314-315. In ... grounds Rawlstheory. Gewirth and Veatch have been sparring partners ... to situate Popper in the history of social and political thought, his ...