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Ideas of John Rawls, by Text
[American, 1921 - 2002, Born at Baltimore. Professor at Harvard University.]
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1958
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Justice as fairness: Political not Metaphysical
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p.37
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The maximisation of happiness must be done fairly [Smart]
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p.32
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20538
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Utilitarians lump persons together; Rawls somewhat separates them; Nozick wholly separates them [Swift]
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p.78
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4123
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A fair arrangement is one that parties can agree to without knowing how it will benefit them personally [Williams,B]
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p.85
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21018
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The social contract has problems with future generations, national boundaries, disabilities and animals [Nussbaum]
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p.100
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Rawls defends the priority of right over good [Finlayson]
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p.102
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Rawls's account of justice relies on conventional fairness, avoiding all moral controversy [Gray]
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p.121
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3280
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Why does the rational agreement of the 'Original Position' in Rawls make it right? [Nagel]
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p.133
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The original position models the idea that citizens start as free and equal [Swift]
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§03
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p.12
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18636
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Choose justice principles in ignorance of your own social situation
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§46
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p.303
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18631
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All desirable social features should be equal, unless inequality favours the disadvantaged
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17
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p.102
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Justice concerns not natural distributions, or our born location, but what we do about them
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46
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p.302
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Liberty Principle: everyone has an equal right to liberties, if compatible with others' liberties
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p.245
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p.150
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Human injustice is not a permanent feature of communities
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p.379
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p.229
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If an aggression is unjust, the constraints on how it is fought are much stricter
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p.74,104
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p.119
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Utilitarianism inappropriately scales up the individual willingness to make sacrifices [Nagel]
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1987
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The Idea of Overlapping Consensus
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p.376
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23420
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In a pluralist society we can't expect a community united around one conception of the good
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1993
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Political Liberalism
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p.217
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p.23
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21119
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Power is only legitimate if it is reasonable for free equal citizens to endorse the constitution
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p.254
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p.249
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21051
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Check your rationality by thinking of your opinion pronounced by the supreme court
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p.115-8
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p.267
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21137
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Rawls rejected cosmopolitanism because it doesn't respect the autonomy of 'peoples' [Shorten]
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