make it unreasonable for people to object to being excluded from the system from access to objects and other opportunities they have reason to want. (p. 108) It does equality that Scanlon favors. Scanlon’s notion of “reasonable rejection” leaves open more options than he recognizes. Many critics of Lockean accounts of property
this misses the issue. Just what he contends is that no one has privileged access to truth: we cannot know in advance that a certain person, or group of e.g., does not meet the terms of his Liberal Principle. What he wants is criticism open to everyone, unbound by limits fixed in advance. But Rauch utterly fails to show
situation is of course altogether undesirable, since a democratic society must be open to ideas and groups that offend majority opinion. What is to be done? (The Most people, it appears, would not allow Communists or open homosexuals access to their schools. Professor Weissberg finds the procedures of these surveys
within his own conception of the good to endorse Rawls’s theory. The view is open to fatal objections, not the least of which is that Rawls’s theory of justice is about the ‘ultimate’ questions but have to live together?” Mises thinks that our access to the transcendent is purely personal and can’t be expressed in language at
this need not involve private ownership of houses. To read books, one needs secure access to particular books, but a public library can satisfy this aim, as can access egalitarian considerations enter the scene at all? If you think they do, you are open to the leveling down objection. “We could achieve equality in wealth and income
in characteristically incisive fashion. To allow regulation of dangerous drugs opens the door to attacks on freedom of speech and of the press: Opium and morphine issue of regulation is not to be settled by balancing the benefits and harms of openaccess to drugs against the benefits and harms of their regulation or prohibition.
in characteristically incisive fashion. To allow regulation of dangerous drugs opens the door to attacks on freedom of speech and of the press: Opium and morphine issue of regulation is not to be settled by balancing the benefits and harms of openaccess to drugs against the benefits and harms of their regulation or prohibition.
He suggests that classical realists err in assuming that statesmen have automatic access to the full extent of their nation’s wealth. This need not be so: and what possessions. He was unable to do so: “when, late in his term, Seward espied an opening, he decided that congressional obstinacy made pursuing such a path futile”
preoccupation of current moral philosophy. People vary widely in wealth and access to the good things in life; and these inequalities, theorists such as John some sense unfair? Unless you are willing to face these questions directly, it is open to the egalitarian to respond in the way I have indicated. Why should we not
the rights of others. To use the coercive powers of the state to deprive people of access to weapons, apart from any evidence that they will use them for criminal starts, the right of self-defense, is one that libertarians accept, so he is not open to objection on this score. If, as the morality of common sense suggests, we
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