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What Can the State of Nature Justify?

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
wiley   +1 more source

A one health economy. [PDF]

open access: yesGlob Bioeth
Capps B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sentientist Political Liberalism

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces sentientist political liberalism. Elaborating on the fundamental ideas in John Rawls's political liberalism, we propose that the scheme of fair social cooperation among persons should be understood as embedded within a broader system of social coexistence between persons and other sentient beings.
Eze Paez, Pablo Magaña
wiley   +1 more source

A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

Norms and Significance in Ignorance. Reply to Duncan Pritchard

open access: yesPhilosophical Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a reply to Duncan Pritchard's response to my critique of his normative account of ignorance. Pritchard suggests that I take a Normative Condition on board in my own account of ignorance. Pritchard's suggestion has drastic revisionary and deflationary implications for how we use words like “ignorance” and “ignorant”.
Rik Peels
wiley   +1 more source

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