G. A. Cohen has recently argued for a thesis about the relationship between facts and principles. He claims that Rawls denies this thesis, and the truth of this thesis vitiates Rawls’s constructivist procedure. I argue against both claims by developing an account of Rawls’s justificatory strategy and the role of facts in this strategy, which I claim is similar to the role of facts in some defen...

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self–concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral switches between self–concern and umpire mode and investigate the goodness of ten standards of behavior. In the ignorance scenario, subjects became, on average, less inequality–averse as umpires. A wi...

This paper considers the view that basis of equality is range property being a moral person. view, suggested by John Rawls in his A Theory Justice (1971), commonly dismissed literature. By defending against criticism levelled it, I aim to show this dismissal has been too quick. The critics have generally failed fully appreciate fact Rawls's account restricted domain distributive justice. On jus...

John Rawls claims that the belief there is but one reasonable and rational conception of "the good" incompatible with political liberalism. A close examination thought Thomas Aquinas, however, reveals commitment to a particular need not imply rejection In fact, Aquinas' notion virtue anticipates Rawls' overlapping consensus. addition, thorough exploration work indicates that, for most part, he ...

Hedonism is the view that the Good Life is the pleasant life. The central aim of this book is to show that, when carefully and charitably interpreted, certain forms of hedonism yield plausible evaluations of human lives. The forms I defend understand pleasure as intrinsic attitudinal pleasure. I reject all forms of sensory hedonism. I defend my preferred forms of hedonism against a barrage of c...