August 1990
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Political Theory
The business of laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth, and of every particular man's goods and person. John Locke
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November 1989
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Political Theory
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... Public reason liberals defend the public justification principle in several ways. For example, they propose various deontological reasons suggesting that publicly unjustified laws are wrong, because they are disrespectful (Larmore 1990) or authoritarian (Gaus 2011). And they propose various axiological reasons, suggesting that publicly philosophers' imprint - 10 -vol. ...
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August 1990
Political Theory
... The problem is that "a commitment to objectivity seems difficult to reconcile with the way the [capability approach] legitimates public reason, i.e., without criteria to ascertain whether public reason is correct" (Domselaar 2009, p. 190). The challenge of formulating a plausible account of the "objectivity" of public reason has been extensively discussed, and the task of meeting this challenge has been identified as crucial to developing the capability approach (Larmore 1989(Larmore , 1999Rawls 1993;Nussbaum 2001). There is, however, no consensus regarding this issue. ...
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November 1989
Political Theory