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225How Egalitarian is Rawls's Theory of Justice?Philosophical Papers 39 (2): 155-181. 2010.Gerald Cohen's critique of John Rawls's theory of justice is that it is concerned only with the justice of social institutions, and must thus arbitrarily draw a line between those inequalities excluded and those allowed by the basic structure. Cohen claims that a proper concern with the interests of the least advantaged would rule out 'incentives' for 'talented' individuals. I argue that Rawls's assumption that the subject of justice is the basic structure of society does not arbitrarily restric…Read more
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22Marx and Rawls on the Justice of Capitalism and the MarketModern Philosophy 1 15-26. 2007.Marx and Rawls seems to have a very different concept of justice. Marx argued that the concept of justice functions in the performance of the dominant ideological mode of production required for the conduct, as universally binding legal code. Rawls is argued that justice is the first virtue of social institutions, its law may be recognized by all such people: they are fair and reasonable to discuss the issue is how to equitably divide among themselves the burden of social cooperation and interes…Read more
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1Ronald Dworkin, Mark Lilla, and Robert B. Silvers, eds., The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (6): 399-402. 2001.
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2James Bernard Murphy, The Moral Economy of Labour: Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (6): 413-415. 1994.
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Overall Quality of Life Measurement: Problems and Prospects in the Case of People with DisabilitiesAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 9 (1). 2007.
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45Overall freedom and constraintInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 44 (2). 2001.Ian Carter argues against what he calls the ?specific freedom thesis?, which claims that in asking whether our society or any individual is free, all we need or can intelligibly concern ourselves with is their freedom to do this or that specific thing. Carter claims that issues of overall freedom are politically and morally important and that, in valuing freedom as such, liberals should be committed to a measure of freedom overall. This paper argues against Carter?s further claim that rejection …Read more
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64A note on Woolcock's defence of Berlin on positive and negative freedomAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (3). 1995.This Article does not have an abstract
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2Wendy Brown, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (1): 7-9. 1996.
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Jeffrie G. Murphy, Character, Liberty, and Law: Kantian Essays in Theory and Practice Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (3): 210-211. 2000.
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30Bourgeois Revolution, State Formation and the Absence of the InternationalHistorical Materialism 13 (2): 3-26. 2005.
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1Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (4): 288-291. 1997.
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Wendy Brown, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (review)Philosophy in Review 16 7-9. 1996.
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25Liberal Socialism: An Alternative Social Ideal Grounded in Rawls and MarxLexington Books. 2015.Liberal Socialism exposes false ideas of justice behind neo-liberal capitalism and combines Rawls's ideas on justice and Marx's views on capitalism to make a plausible case for the alternative social ideal of liberal socialism. A fixed social structure gives equal weight to all competing claims for rights, liberties, and shares of the burdens and benefits of social cooperation, while allowing a democratic majority vote for liberal socialism.
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29Freedom and its conditionsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (3). 1991.This Article does not have an abstract
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Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (review)Philosophy in Review 17 288-291. 1997.
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