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| 21021 | Keep premises as weak as possible, to avoid controversial difficulties |
| 21007 | Storytelling is never neutral; some features of the world must be emphasised |
| 21025 | Particularism gives no guidance for the future |
| 21026 | Compassion is unreliable, because it favours people close to us |
| 21019 | Social contracts assume equal powers among the participants |
| 21011 | We shouldn't focus on actual preferences, which may be distorted by injustices |
| 21008 | Liberalism does not need a comprehensive account of value |
| 21012 | Women are often treated like children, and not respected for their choices |
| 21015 | Negative liberty is incoherent; all liberties, to do and to be, require the prevention of interference |
| 21017 | Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms |
| 21016 | Political and civil rights are not separate from economic and social rights |
| 21009 | Capabilities: Life, Health, Safety, Mental life, Love, Planning, Joining in, Nature, Play, Control [PG] |
| 21010 | Justice requires that the ten main capabilities of people are reasonably enabled |
| 21013 | Capabilities are grounded in bare humanity and agency; qualifying as rational is not needed |
| 21014 | Rights are not just barriers against state interference; governments must affirm capabilities of citizens |
| 21020 | Any establishment belief system is incompatible with full respect for all citizens |
| 21023 | We should respect animals in the way that we respect the animal nature in humans |
| 21024 | It may be no harm to kill an animal which cannot plan for its future |
| 21022 | The Capabilities Approach sees animals as agents, not just as having feelings |