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A perfectionist original position?

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
In A Perfectionist Theory of Justice, Collis Tahzib offers an original reconciliation of perfectionism and contractualism. While ingenious, this reconciliation is unstable. I raise some questions about whether the perfectionist original position can firmly secure equal basic liberties.
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Grim news from the original position: a reply to Professor Doyal. [PDF]

J Med Ethics, 2007
Benatar D.
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Can Rawls’ Theory of Distributive Justice Become a Cure for Poverty?

Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul, 2022
Rawls, a leading thinker of our time, attempted to develop an understanding of justice that reconciles liberty and equality in his work A Theory of Justice (1971).
Ülker Yükselbaba
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The Method of Rawls’ Theory of Justice: some Important Criticisms [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2010
Rawls’ theory of justice enjoys all characteristics of a comprehensive conceptual system, and like any such a system, it embraces a special method nature of which has a definite influence on the content of the theory.
yousef shaghol, leysam sefid khosh
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Possessives, from Franco-Provençal and Occitan Systems to Contact Dialects in Apulia and Calabria

Languages, 2021
This article investigates the contact-induced reorganization of the possessive system in the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken from around the 12th century in the villages of Celle and Faeto in North Apulia and Guardia Piemontese in North-West Calabria ...
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo Maria Savoia
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Uncertainty behind the veil of ignorance [PDF]

, 2011
This paper argues that the decision problem in the original position should be characterized as a decision problem under uncertainty even when it is assumed that the denizens of the original position know that they have an equal chance of ending up in ...
A. FAIK KURTULMUS, Alchian, Fodor, Griffin, Keefe, Keefe, Kreps, Luce, Parfit, Rawls, Rawls, Tuck, Williamson   +12 more
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Posição original e equilíbrio reflexivo em John Rawls: o problema da justificação Original position and reflexive balance in John Rawls: the problem of justification

Trans/Form/Ação, 2009
O objetivo deste artigo é estabelecer algumas considerações sobre o papel dos procedimentos de posição original e equilíbrio reflexivo na teoria da justiça como equidade de John Rawls, nas obras A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism e Justice as ...
Denis Coitinho Silveira
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A Minimal Periods Algorithm with Applications [PDF]

, 2009
Kosaraju in ``Computation of squares in a string'' briefly described a linear-time algorithm for computing the minimal squares starting at each position in a word.
A. Apostolico, A.O. Slisenko, A.S. Fraenkel, B. Schieber, D. Beauquier, D. Gusfield, D. Gusfield, D. Harel, D. Knuth, E.M. McCreight, J. Duval, J. Stoye, L. Ilie, M. Crochemore, M. Crochemore, M. Crochemore, M. Main, M. Main, M.G. Main, R. Kolpakov, S.R. Kosaraju   +20 more
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Naturalism and Moral Conventionalism

Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2018
This article provides a critical examination of Ken Binmore’s theory of the social contract in light of philosophical discussions about moral naturalism and moral conventionalism.
Cyril Hédoin
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Rawls versus utilitarianism: the subset objection [PDF]

, 2016
This paper presents an objection to John Rawls’s use of the original position method to argue against implementing utilitarian rules. The use of this method is pointless because a small subset of the premises Rawls relies on can be used to infer the same
Goldman, Nozick, Rawls, Scheffler
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