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Response to Sterba’s Response

Abstract Although parents or the State ought never to permit certain evils, God may be justified in permitting them, since he has far greater rights over us, and far greater power to compensate us. The difference between ‘horrendous’ and ‘significant’ evils is a matter of degree.
Richard Swinburne, Swinburne Richard
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Sterba on Affirmative Action, or, it Never was the bus, it was Us!

Journal of Ethics, 2011
Professor Sterba argues for two interesting and provocative positions regarding affirmative action. First, affirmative action programs are still needed to ensure diversity in educational institutions of higher learning. Secondly, the proponents and opponents of affirmative action are not as far apart as they seem to think.
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Response to Sterba

, 2010
Jan Narveson, James P. Sterba
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A Naturalistic Theodicy for Sterba’s Problem of Natural Evil

Sophia
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Are Liberty and Equality Compatible? by Jan Narveson and James P. Sterba.

Mind, 2012
Nils Holtug, Holtug Nils
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Richard F. Sterba 1898–1989

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1990
(1990). Richard F. Sterba 1898–1989. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 451-454.
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Sterba on Amoralism and Begging the Question

Philosophical Inquiries, 2013
While sympathetic to Sterba’s equalitarian convictions, Lippert-Rasmussen attacks that Sterba’s rationality-to-morality argument. He presents six objections to show that Sterba’s main argument grounded on the principle of non-question-beggingness fails to defeat amoralism. He also argues that another argument offered by Sterba to defeat amoralism fails
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Sterba on Machan's “Concession”

Journal of Social Philosophy, 2001
Reponse a J. Sterba concernant la position de l'A. sur la relation entre l'ideal de liberte, le bien-etre de la communaute et la conception libertaire des droits individuels.
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Sterba's Program of Philosophical Reconciliation

Journal of Social Philosophy, 1999
Evaluation du programme de reconciliation philosophique entre la morale et la politique, en general, et entre le libertarisme et le liberalisme-providence, en particulier, developpe par J. Sterba, concernant les trois points suivants: 1) les doctrines abstraites; 2) leur comportement face aux fondements moraux; 3) leur application a la pratique ...
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On Sterba’s Argument from Rationality to Morality

The Journal of Ethics, 2014
James Sterba argues for morality as a principled compromise between self-regarding and other-regarding reasons (Morality as Compromise) and that either egoists or altruists, who always give overriding weight to self-regarding and other-reasons, respectively, can be shown to beg the question against morality.
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