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113Original meaning, democratic interpretation, and the constitutionPhilosophy and Public Affairs 21 (1): 3-42. 1992.
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52Constructivism, Facts, and Moral JustificationIn Thomas Christiano & John Philip Christman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: What Are Fundamental Principles of Justice? Justice, Human Needs and Moral Capacities The Social Role of a Conception of Justice Justice and the Human Good Methodological Remarks Notes.
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218Reason and agreement in social contract viewsPhilosophy and Public Affairs 19 (2): 122-157. 1990.
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251G. A. Cohen's Critique of Rawls's Difference PrincipleThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 19 23-45. 2013.
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248The burdens of public justification: Constructivism, contractualism, and publicityPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 6 (1): 5-43. 2007.The publicity of a moral conception is a central idea in Kantian and contractarian moral theory. Publicity carries the idea of general acceptability of principles through to social relations. Without publicity of its moral principles, the intuitive attractiveness of the contractarian ideal seems diminished. For it means that moral principles cannot serve as principles of practical reasoning and justification among free and equal persons. This article discusses the role of the publicity assumptio…Read more
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2Original positionIn Ed Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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199Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal TraditionsSocial Philosophy and Policy 28 (2): 19-55. 2011.Liberalism generally holds that legitimate political power is limited and is to be impartially exercised, only for the public good. Liberals accordingly assign political priority to maintaining certain basic liberties and equality of opportunities; they advocate an essential role for markets in economic activity, and they recognize government's crucial role in correcting market breakdowns and providing public goods. Classical liberalism and what I call “the high liberal tradition” are two main b…Read more
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207Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism Is Not a Liberal ViewPhilosophy and Public Affairs 30 (2): 105-151. 2001.
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327 Congruence and the Good of JusticeIn The Cambridge companion to Rawls, Cambridge University Press. pp. 277. 2002.
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302The law of peoples, social cooperation, human rights, and distributive justiceSocial Philosophy and Policy 23 (1): 29-68. 2006.Cosmopolitans argue that the account of human rights and distributive justice in John Rawls's The Law of Peoples is incompatible with his argument for liberal justice. Rawls should extend his account of liberal basic liberties and the guarantees of distributive justice to apply to the world at large. This essay defends Rawls's grounding of political justice in social cooperation. The Law of Peoples is drawn up to provide principles of foreign policy for liberal peoples. Human rights are among th…Read more
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51Property-Owning Democracy and the DifferenceAnalyse & Kritik 35 (1): 9-36. 2013.John Rawls says: “The main problem of distributive justice is the choice of a social system.” Property-owning democracy is the social system that Rawls thought best realized the requirements of his principles of justice. This article discusses Rawls’s conception of property-owning democracy and how it is related to his difference principle. I explain why Rawls thought that welfare-state capitalism could not fulfill his principles: it is mainly because of the connection he perceived between capit…Read more
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129Contractualism, moral motivation, and practical reasonJournal of Philosophy 88 (6): 281-303. 1991.A discussion of T M Scanlon's contractualism as a foundational account of the nature of morality. The article discusses how contractualism provides an account of moral truth and objectivity that is based in an idealization of moral reasoning. It then develops contractualism's account of moral motivation to show how it provides a way to understand obscure but central aspects of Kantian views: the claims that moral reasons are of a special kind, and that moral motives have a basis in practical rea…Read more
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302Constitutional democracy and the legitimacy of judicial reviewLaw and Philosophy 9 (4). 1990.It has long been argued that the institution of judicial review is incompatible with democratic institutions. This criticism usually relies on a procedural conception of democracy, according to which democracy is essentially a form of government defined by equal political rights and majority rule. I argue that if we see democracy not just as a form of government, but more basically as a form of sovereignty, then there is a way to conceive of judicial review as a legitimate democratic institution…Read more
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100Review: Michael Otsuka: Libertarianism without Inequality (review)Mind 117 (467): 709-715. 2008.
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79Social contract approachesIn David M. Estlund (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 133. 2012.
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