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On the alleged shallowness of compatibilism: A critical study of Saul Smilansky: Free Will and Illusion [PDF]
, 2002 [FIRST PARAGRAPHS] The millionaire’s idle, talentless and self-centered daughter inherits a large sum of money that she does not really deserve. The victim of kidnapping rots in a cell in 1980s Beirut in a captivity that springs not from any wrong he has
Lenman, James
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Why Do Prosocial People Dislike Markets in Some Countries and Like Them in Others?
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on the doux commerce thesis, which suggests that people in market‐oriented societies hold stronger prosocial values than those in less market‐oriented ones, one can expect prosocial and pro‐market values to be positively associated. The fact that the association holds for cross‐country observations but does not universally hold for cross‐
Pál Czeglédi
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Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron
Civilistica.com, 2015 The idea of libertarian paternalism might seem to be an oxymoron, but it is both possible and desirable for private and public institutions to influence behavior while also respecting freedom of choice.
Cass S. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler
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Justifying the State from Rights-Based Libertarian Premises [PDF]
, 2016 Although many libertarians share similar moral foundations, they disagree about whether the state can be justified. The most famous libertarian attempt to justify the state is that of Robert Nozick.
Olsson, J. Mikael
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Left-libertarianism: A primer [PDF]
, 2000 http://klinechair.missouri.edu/Vita_Revised.htm (#46)Left-libertarian theories of justice hold that agents are full self-owners and that natural resources are owned in some egalitarian manner.
Vallentyne, Peter
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A Formal Theory of Robert Nozick's Framework for Utopia
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers the very first formal model of Robert Nozick's model of possible worlds and his vision of a utopian society, as outlined in Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick envisioned utopia as a meta‐utopia—a collection of self‐organized, voluntary sub‐communities—arguing that such an institutional framework is equivalent to ...
Susumu Cato, Hun Chung
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Systemising triage: COVID-19 guidelines and their underlying theories of distributive justice. [PDF]
Med Health Care Philos, 2022 Meier LJ.
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Nonideal Justice as Nonideal Fairness [PDF]
, 2019 This article argues that diverse theorists have reasons to theorize about fairness in nonideal conditions, including theorists who reject fairness in ideal theory.
Arvan, Marcus
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