Cambridge University Press по журналам "Social Philosophy and Policy"
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1994--01)During the last forty years, the Aboriginal peoples of the Americas, of the British Commonwealth, and of other countries colonized by Europeans over the last five hundred years have demanded that their forms of property ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1993--01)We began with three propositions: that people have a right not to be treated as mere means to the ends of others, that a woman who voluntarily becomes pregnant nevertheless has the right to an abortion, and that a woman ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 2010-01-01)Adam Smith raised a series of obstacles to effective large-scale social planning. In this paper, I draw these Smithian obstacles together to construct what I call the “Great Mind Fallacy,” or the belief that there exists ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1998--01)This essay is about the moral and political justification of affirmative action programs in the United States. Both legally and politically, many of these programs are under attack, though they remain ubiquitous. The concern ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1991--01)For the students, while the numbers are up,… the problem that minorities face – and it is persistent – is that there is still too much of a patronizing air in the professional schools. And there's still too much of the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1988--01)In a series of important papers, G.A. Cohen has developed a forceful argument for the claim that workers are rendered unfree by capitalist institutions. His argument poses a powerful challenge to those (such as myself) who ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1996--01)In recent years many people have suggested that rights come from traditions. More particularly, many people interested in American constitutional law have said that constitutional rights should be developed with close ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1995--01)In all of its varieties, traditional liberalism is a universalist political theory. Its content is a set of principles which prescribe the best regime, the ideally best institutions, for all mankind. It may be acknowledged ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1998--01)A democratic society cannot flourish if its citizens merely pursue their own narrow interests. If it is to do more than survive, at least a substantial proportion of its citizens must fulfill responsibilities that go beyond ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1993--01)Individuals frequently give gifts or make transfers to others for altruistic reasons. Parents devote time to raising their children, spouses make sacrifices on each other's behalf, and friends do favors for friends. We are ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1993--01)In the moral philosophy of the last two centuries, altruism of one kind or another has typically been regarded as identical with moral concern. When self-regarding duties have been recognized, motivation by duty has been ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1996--01)The polarization of the individual and the community that underlies much of the debate between individualists and communitarians is made possible in part by the literal vanishingof civil society—the domain whose middling ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1999--01)The idea of flourishing has enjoyed a comeback in recent ethical theory, both from a historical and a systematic perspective. From a historical perspective, one finds a number of studies by scholars of ancient philosophy ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1993--01)Recent decades have seen a resurgence of contractarian thinking about the nature and origins of the state. Scholars in this tradition ask what constraints rational, self-interested actors might deliberately impose upon ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1994--01)This essay deals with property rights in body parts that can be exchanged in a market. The inquiry arises in the following context. With some exceptions, the laws of many countries permit only the donation, not the sale, ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1994--01)In thinking and talking about rights, including property rights, it seems natural to put the argument in either moral or legal terms. From the former viewpoint, rights are part of a description of what actions are right ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1989--01)Imagine a society of fisherfolk, who, in the state of nature, fish on a lake of finite size. Fishing on the lake is characterized by decreasing returns to scale in labor, because the lake's finite size (and finite fish ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 2008-01-01)Constructivism about practical judgments, as I understand it, is the notion that our true normative judgments represent a normative reality, while denying that that reality is independent of our exer-cise of moral and ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1999--01)The philosophy of Aristotle (384–322, b.c.e.) remains a beacon of our culture. But no part of Aristotle's work is more alive and compelling today than his contribution to ethics and political science — nor more relevant ...
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(Cambridge University Press. New York, USA, 1993--01)Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, normative democratic theory has focused principally on three tasks: refining principles of justice, clarifying the nature of political justification, and exploring ...
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