Journal ArticleDOI
Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
Norman Daniels,Michael Walzer +1 more
TLDR
Lawler as mentioned in this paper argued that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament, which is hardly a rational position in the sense that it is suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some.Abstract:
that a plurality of the American Catholic bishops endorse a nuclear freeze (p. 4), saying that they are thus "taking their stance with Moscow,55 which is for a freeze, and not with the Vatican, which "is still in favor of disarmament?not a freeze.55 To make any sense at all, Mr. Lawler must mean that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament? hardly a rational position. One recalls here the arguments, during the 19305s and 19405s, that being for racial justice in the United States was suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some, because the communists also favored it.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Global justice as justice for a world of largely independent nations? From dualism to a multi‐level ethical position
TL;DR: The authors argued that even if one is committed to seeing nation-states as the privileged sites of social justice, there is no reason not to recognize substantial amounts of socialjustice above the nation-state level.
Journal ArticleDOI
Ways of owning : towards an economic sociology of privatisation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline three possible "orders of appropriation" which can be appealed to when justifying and criticising privatisation in economic situations: the socialist, the neoliberal and the liberal.
Journal ArticleDOI
Voting Rights of Denizens and Expats: Adjusting Democracy Indices to the Age of Mass Migration
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new measure of inclusiveness called Electoral Residential Inclusiveness, which measures how large the overlap between those who make the law and those who are subject to it is.
Journal ArticleDOI
Distributive justice: an ordering of priorities. A comparative analysis of European opinions
Michel Forsé,Maxime Parodi +1 more
TL;DR: The European Values Survey carried out in 1999 showed clearly the priorities of Europeans in this matter as mentioned in this paper, and the consensus on this hierarchy is not altered by national, demographical, social, economic or political divisions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Michael Walzer in Historical Context: Complex Equality and the American Social-Democratic Tradition
TL;DR: The authors locates the disagreement in differing conceptions of equality by situating Walzer's theory of complex equality in differing notions of equality, and shows that the disagreement can be traced back to the fact that some critics have denied the egalitarian credentials of Michael Walzer.