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42Natural Law and Normative InclinationsRatio Juris 28 (1): 52-67. 2015.Natural law ethics holds that practical rationality consists in engaging in non-defective ways with a range of fundamental goods. These basic goods are characteristically presented as reflecting the natural properties of humans, but the details of this picture vary widely. This article argues that natural law ethics can usefully be understood as a type of dispositional theory of value, which identifies the basic goods with those objectives that humans are characteristically disposed to pursue an…Read more
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33Reinterpreting government neutralityAustralian Journal of Legal Philosophy 29 118-139. 2004.The principle of government neutrality, as commonly understood, enshrines the idea that government bodies ought to treat all citizens equally. I argue that the traditional interpretation of this principle in liberal constitutionalism has involved a prohibition against legal actors distinguishing between subjects on the basis of their personal characteristics. This approach is unsatisfactory, as it constrains the law's ability to respond to evolved social practices of discrimination. To illustrat…Read more
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Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |