... also discusses powerful objections to the capability approach that, building on the work of John Rawls, stress the importance of public justification and, in turn, simplifying devices in political decision-making. Those objections demonstrate that quantification is very important from a normative...

... differences pervade our backgrounds, preferences, and allegiances. They affect not only what we think, but also how we think, and how we see the world. John Rawls called it the “fact of pluralism.” The fact of pluralism creates a practical problem in need of a political solution. Rousseau offered one...

... globalization virtues civic liberalism enlightened liberalism neoliberalism ideology authoritarianism Adam Smith Wilhelm von Humboldt John Stuart Mill John Rawls Richard Rorty Labeled as neoliberalism and discredited, the thinking that takes up the banner of freedom, liberalism, rings false...

...Examines John Rawls's conception of the "burdens of judgment" that characterize political liberalism. For Rawls, judgment in a multicultural society requires that we make judgments on the basis of of what we can expect others to reasonably accept. What is reasonable is that which is embedded...

... comments on philosopher John Rawls' theory of justice as fairness which utilized a variation on the hypothetical “state of nature” in social contract theory to advance a claim for the least advantaged in society. Darwin Charles Alexander R D altruism australopithecines Brain Charles K group defense...

.... In contrast to several contemporary theories of distributive justice, most notably that of John Rawls, and in keeping with recent accounts of the political economy of the welfare state, this book contends that social insurance cannot do away with risk without altering its basic character or appeal. Any...

... Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder. That relationship, in turn, is understood as one exemplifying what is termed, following Stanley Cavell and John Rawls, a “conversation of justice.” Furthermore, it is shown how the issues that Justified raises map onto and reflect exactly the criticism of Rawls that Cavell...

... are increasingly prominent. These challenges have spurred searches for alternative indicators of social progress and raised fundamental normative questions about the values and aims that ought to guide a society. The chapter examines John Stuart Mill's, John Maynard Keynes's, and John Rawls's challenges...

... inequalities class based Cohen G A minoritarian perspectives Okin Susan nondomination positive liberties negative liberties difference principle difference without domination John Rawls Benjamin Constant Amartya Sen democracy political equality The modern experiment with democratic government...

... prominence over the twentieth century, and gave rise to Bayesian decision theory, downplayed concerns about equity and defined all reasoning as a form of wager. In light of this background, the most influential work of twentieth-century political thought, John Rawls’s Theory of Justice, is fruitfully read...