Moral Philosophy and Politics

ISSNs: 2194-5616, 2194-5624

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    Cooperation, Democracy, and Coercion: On the Grounds and Scope of Freedom of Movement.Borja Niño Arnaiz - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):229-255.
    It is often believed that domestic principles of justice cannot ground freedom of international movement. Some argue that since principles of justice are not global in scope, justice does not require freedom of movement at the global level. This is problematic, for it confuses the grounds with the scope of justice. Given that the scope of justice is potentially global, freedom of movement must also be global in scope. Others have argued that the grounds of freedom of movement themselves are (...)
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    Carbon Pricing and Intergenerational Fairness.Fausto Corvino - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):205-227.
    John Broome and Duncan Foley have proposed an ingenious way to transfer benefits backwards in time, from people who are not here yet to people who will not be here in the future. Present people can crowd out conventional, and often brown, investments by issuing global climate bonds (GCBs). The debate about GCBs has focused on whether it is justified to use this financial instrument to allow future people to buy off present people for climate mitigation. In this article, I (...)
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    Writing the Other: The Ethics of Out-Group Representation in Art.Nils Holtug - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):183-204.
    Recently, there have been cases in which out-group representation in art has faced severe criticism. Out-group representation occurs when an artist in her work engages with people, characters, or subject matters that do not fall within her own identity group. This is exemplified by the case of finding a translator for Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb in the Netherlands, where the original choice was criticized because, unlike Gorman, the translator was not Black, and by the case of Dana Schutz’s (...)
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    A Marketplace for Honest Ideas.Kasim Khorasanee - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):165-182.
    The marketplace of ideas is a colourful metaphor with a long history of being used to argue for freedom of speech. This paper draws on its historical antecedents to begin with an orthodox understanding of the metaphor whereby the absence of substantive regulation is taken to be conducive to the good functioning of both economic markets and public discourse. This anti-regulation reading is then challenged by analysing a series of legal cases showcasing prohibitions on misrepresentation and fraud. These speech regulations (...)
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    Defensive Kidnapping.Connor K. Kianpour - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):281-303.
    Are private citizens ever morally permitted to abduct children and keep them in their custody, to protect them from their severely abusive or neglectful parents? Should private citizens face legal penalties for abducting children and keeping them in their custody, to protect them from their severely abusive or neglectful parents? In this essay, I offer arguments that support an affirmative answer to the first question and a negative answer to the second. Ultimately, I come out supporting a legal regime that (...)
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    Future People as Future Victims: An Anti-Natalist Justification of Longtermism.Rex Lee - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):59-83.
    In this paper, I propose a refined version of Seana Shiffrin’s consent argument for anti-natalism and argue that longtermism is best justified not through the traditional consequentialist approach, but from an anti-natalist perspective. I first reformulate Shiffrin’s consent argument, which claims that having children is pro tanto morally problematic because the unconsented harm the child will suffer could not be justified by the benefits they will enjoy, by including what I call the trivializing requirement to better accommodate various criticisms. Based (...)
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    Rawls, Humanity and the Concept of Expression.Alexandros Manolatos - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):141-164.
    In this article I present two possible interpretations of Rawls’s assertion in A Theory of Justice that human beings have a desire to express their nature as free and rational. My reading hinges on different accounts of the Kantian conception of the person and of the Aristotelian principle and its companion effect. According to the first interpretation, this desire is a kind of natural predisposition inherent in all persons irrespective of the society in which they live. It has a universal (...)
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    The Doctrine of Sufficiency as a Contractualist Principle.Kenneth R. Pike - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):127-139.
    I argue that Harry Frankfurt’s doctrine of sufficiency, properly understood, presents a plausible alternative to egalitarianism. My position may be more general than Frankfurt’s, insofar as he limits himself to economic sufficiency; on my view, insufficiency is a generic reason for the rejection of principles governing permissible behavior. By situating sufficiency within a contractualist framework of moral permissibility, I provide an alternative to common (and, I think, mistaken) characterizations of the doctrine of sufficiency as either subordinate to equality or primarily (...)
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    Philosophy for the Long Run: Introduction to the Symposium on Longtermism.Stefan Riedener - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):1-6.
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  10. Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism as a Metaethical Route to Virtue-Ethical Longtermism.Richard Friedrich Runge - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):7-32.
    This article proposes a metaethical route from neo-Aristotelian naturalism, as developed in particular by Philippa Foot, to virtue-ethical longtermism. It argues that the metaethical assumptions of neo-Aristotelian naturalism inherently imply that a valid description of the life-form of a species must satisfy a formal requirement of internal sustainability. The elements of a valid life-form description then serve as a normative standard. Given that humans have the ability to influence the fate of future generations and know about their influence, this article (...)
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    Public Reason, Coercion, and Overlapping Consensus.Ezequiel Spector - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):85-105.
    The idea of public reason involves a standard of legitimacy that requires that laws and institutions be acceptable to all reasonable people, regardless of their conceptions of the good. Many philosophers have argued that public reason should be understood as an answer to the question of how to justify state coercion. However, some authors have criticized this traditional account because it overlooks noncoercive state actions that seem appropriate topics of public reason. More recently, some philosophers have defended the traditional account (...)
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  12. Act and Rule Consequentialism: A Synthesis.Jussi Suikkanen - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):107-126.
    As an indirect ethical theory, rule consequentialism first evaluates moral codes in terms of how good the consequences of their general adoption are and then individual actions in terms of whether or not the optimific code authorises them. There are three well-known and powerful objections to rule consequentialism’s indirect structure: the ideal world objection, the rule worship objection, and the incoherence objection. These objections are all based on cases in which following the optimific code has suboptimal consequences in the real (...)
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  13. Capitalism and the Very Long Term.Nikhil Venkatesh - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):33-58.
    Capitalism is defined as the economic structure in which decisions over production are largely made by or on behalf of individuals in virtue of their private property ownership, subject to the incentives and constraints of market competition. In this paper, I will argue that considerations of long-term welfare, such as those developed by Greaves and MacAskill (2021), support anticapitalism in a weak sense (reducing the extent to which the economy is capitalistic) and perhaps support anticapitalism in a stronger sense (establishing (...)
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