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Fairness as Order: A Grammatical and Etymological Prolegomenon

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  1. Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), pp. 77–78.

  2. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, ed., Oskar Priest (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrrill, 1957), p. 55.

  3. Phillip Montague, “Comparative and Non-comparative Justice,” Philosophical Quarterly, 30 (1980), p. 140.

  4. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

  5. Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 1, scene 3.

  6. Ibid., act 1, scene 1.

  7. Oxford English Dictionary.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. C.B. Macpherson (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1968), “A Review, and Conclusion,” p. 728.

  11. Ibid., prt.1, ch. 13, p. 184.

  12. See Nicholas Rescher, Fairness (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2002), pp. 34–35.

  13. See Kenneth Harris, Attlee (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984), p. 569.

  14. I am grateful to Garrett Cullity, Ray Harlow, and Peter Morriss for their comments. This material, or parts of it, was presented in talks at the Universities of Cardiff, Waikato, and York, and at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at the Australian National University. I am grateful for the comments I received on those occasions. I would also like to thank Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for his comments and help.

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Cupit, G. Fairness as Order: A Grammatical and Etymological Prolegomenon. J Value Inquiry 45, 389–401 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9306-9

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