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Any concept of justice that hopes to win broad support in the real world has to be political in these three ways: to be narrow in scope; to be free-standing of any comprehensive moral doctrine; and to be grounded in widely shared ideas drawn from the public political culture. The original position ensures that Rawls’s principles possess these
... See moreDaniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netWhen 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
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Jonathan Wolff • Ethics and Public Policy
Glad to see my piece for the American Journal of Jurisprudence symposium on Adrian Vermeule’s “Common Good Constitutionalism” is now online. Basic message: treating the classical legal tradition and liberalism as radically opposed underestimates both
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