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147Equal respect and equal sharesSocial Philosophy and Policy 19 (1): 244-274. 2002.We are all equal, sort of. We are not equal in terms of our physical or mental capacities. Morally speaking, we are not all equally good. Evidently, if we are equal, it is not in virtue of our actual characteristics, but despite them. Our equality is of a political rather than metaphysical nature. We do not expect people to be the same, but we expect differences to have no bearing on how people ought to be treated as citizens. Or when differences do matter, we expect that they will not matter in…Read more
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28Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (M. van Roojen)Philosophical Books 41 (1): 62-63. 2000.The issue of social welfare and individual responsibility has become a topic of international public debate in recent years as politicians around the world now question the legitimacy of state-funded welfare systems. David Schmidtz and Robert Goodin debate the ethical merits of individual versus collective responsibility for welfare. David Schmidtz argues that social welfare policy should prepare people for responsible adulthood rather than try to make that unnecessary. Robert Goodin argues agai…Read more
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40A Survey of Ecological Economics, Rajaram Krishnan, Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin . Island Press, 1995, 384 + xxxix Pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 15 (1): 152. 1999.
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36Pettit's 'free riding and foul dealing'Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (2). 1988.This Article does not have an abstract
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78GuaranteesSocial Philosophy and Policy 14 (2): 1. 1997.People have accidents. They get old. They eat too much. They have bad luck. And sooner or later, something will be fatal. It would be a better world if such things did not happen, but they do. There is no use arguing about it. What is worth arguing about is whether it makes for a better world when people have to pay for other people's misfortunes and mistakes rather than their own
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91Diminishing Marginal Utility and Egalitarian RedistributionJournal of Value Inquiry 34 (2/3): 263-272. 2000.
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |