Thesis
Justice, constructivism, and the egalitarian ethos
- Alternative title:
- explorations in Rawlsian political philosophy
- Abstract:
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This thesis defends John Rawls’s constructivist theory of justice against three distinct challenges.
Part one addresses G. A. Cohen’s claim that Rawls’s constructivism is committed to a mistaken thesis about the relationship between facts and principles. It argues that Rawls’s constructivist procedure embodies substantial moral commitments, and offers an intra-normative reduction rather than a metaethical account. Rawls’s claims about the role of facts in moral theorizing in A Th...
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- Publication date:
- 2010
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:6136
- Deposit date:
- 2012-03-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Ahmet Faik Kurtulmus
- Copyright date:
- 2010
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