Reflective Equilibrium is enough. Against the need for pre-selecting “considered judgments”
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In this paper, we focus on one controversial element of the method reflective equilibrium, namely Rawls’ idea that commitments enter justificatory procedure should be pre-selected or filtered: According to him, only considered judgements taken into account in moral philosophy. There are two camps critics filtering process: 1) Critics equilibrium: They reject Rawlsian process as too weak and seek a more reliable one, which would actually constitute distinct epistemic method. 2) Proponents exclusionary. We defend RE against its critics, arguing can secure reasonable without depending strong external process. However, side with critical proponents equilibrium argue process, is plausible both general well context
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethics, politics & society
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2184-2582']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21814/eps.5.2.210