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62The Objection from Justice and the Conceptual/Substantive DistinctionIn Mill on Justice, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 198. 2012.I begin this chapter by outlining Mill's thinking about why justice is a problem for utilitarians. Next, I turn to Mill's own account of justice and explain its connection with rights, perfect duties, and harms. I then examine David Lyons' answer to the question of how Mill's account is meant to answer the Weak Objection from Justice. Lyons maintains that Mill's account of justice has both a conceptual side and a substantive side. The former provides an analysis of such concepts as 'justice'…Read more
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57Mill on Justice (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2012.A collection on new articles on Mill's theory of justice
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532Voluntary Human Engineering, Climate Change, and N-Person Prisoners DilemmasEthics, Policy and Environment 15 (2). 2012.Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 241-243, June 2012
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215Rule Consequentialism and ScopeEthical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (5): 631-646. 2012.Rule consequentialism (RC) holds that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined by an ideal moral code, i.e., the set of rules whose internalization would have the best consequences. But just how many moral codes are there supposed to be? Absolute RC holds that there is a single morally ideal code for everyone, while Relative RC holds that there are different codes for different groups or individuals. I argue that Relative RC better meets the test of reflective equilibrium than Absolu…Read more
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15Just War Theory, Political Liberalism, and Non-Combatant ImmunityTheoretical and Applied Ethics. 2010.The is a brief response to Matthew Bruenig's "Rethinking Noncombatant Immunity." I argue, contra Bruenig, that political liberalism does not raise any special problems for the view that non-combatants should not be directly targeted by another country's military.
Leonard Kahn
Loyola University, New Orleans
US Naval Academy
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Loyola University, New OrleansDepartment of Philosophy
College of Arts & SciencesAssociate Professor -
US Naval AcademyVisiting scholar
APA Central Division
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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