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1047A Modified Rawlsian Theory of Social Justice: “Justice as fair Rights”Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 50 593-608. 2008.In my 1990 work – Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice – I argued for four modifications of Rawls’s principles of social justice and rendered a modified version of his theory in four principles, the first of which is the Basic Rights Principle demanding the protection of people’s security and subsistence rights. In both his Political Liberalism and Justice as Fairness Rawls explicitly refers to my version of his theory, clearly accepting three of my four proposed modifications but rejecting the…Read more
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447What is to Be Distributed?The Paideia Project. 1998.I take up the "What is equality?" controversy begun by Amartya Sen in 1979 by critically considering utility (J. S. Mill), primary goods (John Rawls), property rights (John Roemer) and basic capabilities in terms of what is to be distributed according to principles and theories of social justice. I then consider the four most general principles designed to answer issues raised by the Equality of Welfare principle, Equality of Opportunity for Welfare principle, Equality of Resources principle and…Read more
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129Marxism, Morality, and Social JusticePrinceton University Press. 1990.In this book R. G. Peffer tackles the challenges of finding in Marx's work an implicit moral theory, of answering claims that Marxism is incompatible with morality, and of developing the outlines of an adequate Marxist moral and social ...
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90World Hunger and Moral TheoryThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 1 193-204. 2007.I canvass the major contending normative theories /approaches concerning the world hungerabsolute poverty problem by going through a set of questions— some normative, some empirical, and some a mixture of both—in order to elucidate what the germane issues are in this ongoing debate and in order to provide a decision procedure for progressively weeding out the less plausible theories from the more plausible ones until we arrive at what I believe to be the most plausible and well-supported theory …Read more
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53The U.S. War in Iraq, Just War Theory and NeoconservatismProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 40 115-151. 2008.Given certain well-known empirical facts–including the Bush II administration’s motivations and its actions initiating the war – the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 (and its continuing war of occupation) is not just (i.e., is not morally justified), on any standard interpretation of Just War Theory criteria for jus ad bellum. Since there was no imminent threat of attack by Iraq against the U.S., the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a Preventative or Merely Precautionary War (which is notrecognized by eit…Read more
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46Symposium on globalization and justice: IntroductionEconomics and Philosophy 22 (1): 113-114. 2006.For over half a century in more than a dozen books and 600 philosophical articles Kai Nielsen has developed and defended a radically egalitarian theory of social justice as well as a political vision demanding a democratic, humane form of socialism and, on an international level, a federative world socialist government embodying these values. In Globalization and Justice Nielsen applies his acute analytical abilities and his substantive theories and views to the present ongoing reality of corpor…Read more
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27Nine. Marxist and leftist objections to Rawls' theory of justice: A critical reviewIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 361-415. 1990.
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21Marxism, markets, and the 'sanctity' of socialist property relationsJournal of Social Philosophy 22 (1): 63-72. 1991.
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19A failed reconciliation: Further reflections on Sterba's projectJournal of Social Philosophy 25 (1): 206-221. 1994.Although I do not find any of Sterba's responses to my recent criticisms of his work How to Make People Just convincing, I shall not attempt to answer them point by point since this would be a boring, scholastic exercise at best.1 Rather, I shall expand upon what I believe continue to be the three major problems with Sterba's theory and explain why his recent responses to my criticisms along these lines are not adequate
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16World Hunger and Moral TheoryThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 1 193-204. 2007.I canvass the major contending normative theories /approaches concerning the world hungerabsolute poverty problem by going through a set of questions— some normative, some empirical, and some a mixture of both—in order to elucidate what the germane issues are in this ongoing debate and in order to provide a decision procedure for progressively weeding out the less plausible theories from the more plausible ones until we arrive at what I believe to be the most plausible and well-supported theory …Read more
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14BibliographyIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 465-506. 1990.
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12Seven. Marxism, moral relativism, and moral objectivityIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 268-314. 1990.
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12Five. Marxism and moral historicismIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 212-235. 1990.
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11Eight. Marxist critiques of justice and rightsIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 317-360. 1990.
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10Morality and the Marxist Concept of IdeologyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (sup1): 67-91. 1981.
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9What is to be Distributed?The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 41 186-192. 1998.I take up the "What is equality?" controversy begun by Amartya Sen in 1979 by critically considering utility, primary goods, property rights and basic capabilities in terms of what is to be distributed according to principles and theories of social justice. I then consider the four most general principles designed to answer issues raised by the Equality of Welfare principle, Equality of Opportunity for Welfare principle, Equality of Resources principle and Equality of Opportunity for Resources p…Read more
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9Six. Morality and ideologyIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 236-267. 1990.
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9Four “marxist αντι-moralisμ”: A critiqueIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 169-211. 1990.
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8Two. Consequentialist interpretations of MarxIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 80-114. 1990.
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8IntroductionIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-32. 1990.
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8Towards a More Adequate Rawlsian Theory of Social JusticePacific Philosophical Quarterly 75 (3-4): 251-271. 2017.
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7Ten. Toward an adequate marxist moral and social theoryIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 416-460. 1990.
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6Appendix. Stages in the development of marx’s thoughtIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 461-464. 1990.
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6Three marx’s theories of freedom and exploitation: A reconstruction and defenseIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 115-166. 1990.
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6One. The development of marx’s moral perspectiveIn Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice, Princeton University Press. pp. 35-79. 1990.
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