Psychotherapy and distributive justice: a Rawlsian analysis
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Rawlsian maximin rule operates as a common cognitive anchor in distributive justice and risky decisions.
Distributive justice concerns the moral principles by which we seek to allocate resources fairly among diverse members of a society. Although the concept of fair allocation is one of the fundamental building blocks for societies, there is no clear consensus on how to achieve "socially just" allocations. Here, we examine neurocognitive commonalities of distributive judgments and risky decisions....
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1386-7423,1572-8633
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-008-9143-1