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realism, or a “realist empiricism.”117
Simon Carnell • Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
When we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and negotia
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Rawls’s case for the priority of the right over the good reflects the conviction that a “moral person is a subject with ends he has chosen.”30 As moral agents, we are defined not by our ends but by our capacity for choice. “It is not our aims that primarily reveal our nature” but rather the framework of rights we would choose if we could abstract f
... See moreMichael J. Sandel • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”
Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics
pessimism also has its own ontological argument: existence is that beyond which nothing worse can be conceived.
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
John Rawls laid out much philosophical theory dedicated to the conditions under which a socially just society might be organized. In this, he set out a universalist thought experiment in which a socially just society would be one in which an individual given a choice would be equally happy to be born into any social milieu or identity group.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
The alternative is known as anti-Humeanism,
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
From this vantage point, verificationism began to seem less like a technical stance about which sentences make sense and more like an ethical stance about what we owe to each other: which includes explanations, rather than mystifications of the commitments of others wrapped up in unevaluable language. That commitment that could well start by explai
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