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2Original positionIn Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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177Capitalism 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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550Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism Is Not a Liberal ViewPhilosophy and Public Affairs 30 (2): 105-151. 2001.
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307 Congruence and the Good of JusticeIn Samuel Richard Freeman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Cambridge University Press. pp. 277. 2003.
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294The 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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128Contractualism, 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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291Constitutional 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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94Review: Michael Otsuka: Libertarianism without Inequality (review)Mind 117 (467): 709-715. 2008.
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75Social contract approachesIn David Estlund (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 133. 2012.
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4John Rawls–an OverviewIn Samuel Richard Freeman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--59. 2003.
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203Utilitarianism, Deontology, and the Priority of RightPhilosophy and Public Affairs 23 (4): 313-349. 1994.
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45RawlsRoutledge. 2007.In this superb introduction, Samuel Freeman introduces and assesses the main topics of Rawls' philosophy. Starting with a brief biography and charting the influences on Rawls' early thinking, he goes on to discuss the heart of Rawls's philosophy: his principles of justice and their practical application to society. Subsequent chapters discuss Rawls's theories of liberty, political and economic justice, democratic institutions, goodness as rationality, moral psychology, political liberalism, and …Read more
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121Deliberative Democracy: A Sympathetic CommentPhilosophy and Public Affairs 29 (4): 371-418. 2000.
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