Rightness as Fairness

A Moral and Political Theory

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2016
ISBN13: 9781137541802
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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 2016 9781137541802
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Rightness as Fairness provides a uniquely fruitful method of 'principled fair negotiation' for resolving applied moral and political issues that requires merging principled debate with real-world negotiation.

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ISBN13:9781137541802
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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List of Tables <br>Acknowledgements <br>INTRODUCTION <br>PART I: ETHICS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY <br>1. Distinguishing Truth from Seeming-Truth <br>2. Seven Principles of Theory-Selection <br>2.1. Firm Foundations <br>2.2. Internal Coherence <br>2.3. External Coherence <br>2.4. Explanatory Power <br>2.5. Unity <br>2.6. Parsimony <br>2.7. Fruitfulness <br>3. The Case for Instrumentalism <br>3.1. The Firmest Foundation<br>3.2. The Promise of Parsimony, Unity, Explanatory Power, and Fruitfulness<br>3.3. Advantages over Alternatives<br>3.3.1. Advantages over Intuitionism<br>3.3.2. Advantages over Reflective Equilibrium <br>3.3.3. Advantages over Moral-Language Analysis<br>3.3.4. Advantages over Constitutivism<br>3.3.5. Advantages over Second and Third-Personalism<br>3.3.6. Advantages over Sterba's Dialecticalism<br>3.3.7. Conclusion <br>4. Disarming Initial Concerns<br>4.1. The Wrong Kinds of Reasons?<br>4.2. Not a Firm Foundation?<br>4.3. Unconvincing and Artificial?<br>4.4. Three Promissory Notes<br>4.4.1. Not the Wrong Kinds of Reasons?<br>4.4.2. Firm Foundations After All?<br>4.4.3. Convincing and Intuitive? <br>5. Conclusion<br>PART II: THE PROBLEM OF POSSIBLE FUTURE SELVES<br>1. Our Capacities to Care about Our Past and Future<br>2. The Problem of Possible Future Selves<br>2.1. Possible Futures<br>2.2. Possible Psychologies<br>2.3. Possible Choices<br>2.4. A Very Real Problem<br>3. Morality as the Solution?<br>4. Is the Problem Too Contingent?<br>5. Two Nonsolutions<br>5.1. Nonsolution 1: Probable Futures <br>5.2. Nonsolution 2: Diachronic Motivational Consistency<br>6. Conclusion: An Unsolved Problem<br>PART III: THE CATEGORICAL-INSTRUMENTAL IMPERATIVE <br>1. Interests in Diachronic Cooperation<br>2. Three Types of Interests<br>2.1. Involuntary Interests<br>2.2. Semivoluntary Interests<br>2.3. Voluntary Interests<br>3. The Categorical-Instrumental Imperative<br>4. Just Conscience?<br>5. An Intuitive Solution to the Problem of Possible Future Selves?<br>6. Conclusion<br>PART IV: THREE UNIFIED FORMULATIONS<br>1. The Humanity-and-Sentience Formulation<br>1.1. Possible Other-Human-Regarding Interests<br>1.2. Possible Nonhuman-Animal-Regarding Interests <br>1.3. Possible Sentient-Being-Regarding Interests<br>1.4. Derivation of the Humanity-and-Sentience Formulation <br>2. The Kingdom-of-Human-and-Sentient-Ends Formulation<br>3. Advantages over Kantian Ethics<br>3.1. Firmer Foundations<br>3.2. Greater Internal Coherence<br>3.3. Greater External Coherence<br>3.4. Greater Explanatory Power, Unity and Parsimony<br>3.5. Greater Fruitfulness<br>4. Conclusion<br>PART V: THE MORAL ORIGINAL POSITION<br>1. Rawls' Original Position<br>1.1. Rawls' Kantian Rationale <br>1.2. Rawls' Reflective-Equilibrium Rationale <br>1.3. Rawls' Public Reason Rationale <br>2. Some Common Critiques<br>2.1. Kantian Critiques <br>2.2. Reflective-Equilibrium Critiques <br>2.3. Public Reason Critiques<br>3. The Case for a Moral Original Position<br>4. Corroborating the Critiques<br>4.1. Corroborating Kantian Critiques<br>4.2. Corroborating Reflective-Equilibrium Critiques <br>4.3. Corroborating Public Reason Critiques<br>5. Conclusion<br>PART VI: RIGHTNESS AS FAIRNESS <br>1. Derivation of Four Principles of Fairness<br>1.1. The Principle of Negative Fairness<br>1.2. The Principle of Positive Fairness<br>1.3. The Principle of Fair Negotiation <br>1.4. The Principle of Virtues of Fairness<br>2. Rightness as Fairness: A Unified Standard of Right and Wrong<br>3. Rightness as Fairness in Practice: Principled Fair Negotiation<br>3.1. Kant's Four Cases <br>3.2. How Numbers Should Count: Trolleys, Torture, and Unwilling Organ Donors<br>3.3. World Poverty<br>3.4. Distribution of Scarce Medical Resources<br>3.5. The Ethical Treatment of Animals<br>4. Conclusion<br>PART VII: LIBERTARIAN EGALITARIAN COMMUNITARIANISM<br>1. Libertarianism, Egalitarianism, and Communitarianism<br>1.1. Libertarianism: Attractions and Critiques <br>1.2. Egalitarianism: Attractions and Critiques <br>1.3. Egalitarianism: Attractions and Critiques <br>2. The Case for Libertarian Egalitarian Communitarianism<br>3. Additional Advantages<br>3.1. (Qualified) Fair Negotiation over Divisiveness<br>3.2. Resolving the Scope and Requirements of Justice<br>3.3. Resolving the Ideal-Nonideal Theory Distinction<br>4. Conclusion<br>PART VIII: EVALUATING RIGHTNESS AS FAIRNESS<br>1. Firmer Foundations<br>2. Greater Internal Coherence<br>3. Greater External Coherence<br>4. Greater Explanatory Power5. Greater Unity<br>6. Greater Parsimony<br>7. Greater Fruitfulness<br>8. Conclusion<br>References<br>Bibliography<br>Index<br>

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