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57The Place of Equality in Habermas' and Dworkin's Theories of JusticeEuropean Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 21-35. 1995.
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7On the Rationality of BeliefsIn Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, W. De Gruyter. pp. 179-186. 1994.
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297The Global Scope of JusticeMetaphilosophy 32 (1-2): 135-159. 2001.In this paper, I examine the question of the scope of justice, in a not unusual distributive, egalitarian, and universalistic framework. Part I outlines some central features of the egalitarian theory of justice I am proposing. According to such a conception, justice is – at least prima facie – immediately universal, and therefore global. It does not morally recognize any judicial boundaries or limits. Part II examines whether, even from a universalistic perspective, there are moral or pragmatic…Read more
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420Democracy out of Reason? Comment on Rainer Forst's "The Rule of Reasons"Ratio Juris 14 (4): 379-389. 2001.In my paper, I comment on Rainer Forst's paper in this issue. I raise doubts as to whether the justification of democracy emerges from a fundamental moral right to reciprocal and general justification, as Forst claims. His basic argument appears questionable because democracy is different from a “hypothetical‐consent‐conception” of moral legitimacy, which limits as well as enables democratic legitimacy. The former cannot, however, justify the latter through an argument centered on self‐governmen…Read more
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1Zum Ursprung der NormativitätIn Axel Honneth & Rainer Forst (eds.), Sozialphilosophie Und Kritik, Suhrkamp. pp. 60--250. 2009.
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138Practical reason: A review of the current debate and problems (review)Philosophical Explorations 5 (3). 2002.In this review article I refer to some of the most relevant recent publications in the field of practical rationality, mainly drawing on two new anthologies by Wallace and Millgram that contain the principal arguments in the current debate, and on new books and articles by Bittner, Dancy, Nida-Rümelin and Raz. The purpose of the article is to offer an overview of the relevant positions in the current debate, to clarify the main arguments against the belief-desire model, and to situate some of th…Read more
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49The Presumption of EqualityProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 50 205-211. 2008.In this paper I present an argument for a procedural principle of distribution, which is often called the presumption of equality.
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Drei Stufen einer materialen kognitiven Ethik und ihre ProblemeEthik Und Sozialwissenschaften 4 (4): 605. 1993.
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25The Principle of SubsidiarityIn Andreas Follesdal & Thomas Pogge (eds.), Real World Justice. Grounds, Principles, Human Rights, and Social Institutions, Springer. pp. 157-170. 2005.
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32Eine einheitliche Konzeption von RationalitätProtoSociology 6 114-133. 1994.This article argues for the thesis that there is only one basic form of rationality, which is applied in different areas. First of all, there is one meaning of the term "rational" which applies to all situations in which the term is used: "justified." If "rational" means simply "justified", then rationality can be broken down into as many types as there are kinds of justification. Two distinctions between kinds of justification seem particularly plausible: 1. relative vs. absolute justifications…Read more
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