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政治自由主义 = Political liberalism

John Rawls, +1 more
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The article was published on 2000-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1762 citations till now.

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Liberal Constitutions and Traditional Cultures: The South African Customary Law Debate

TL;DR: The authors examines the political context surrounding the debate about the relative status of cultural rights and gender equality rights in the South African constitutional process and argues for a reframing of similar such conflicts as primarily political and not moral in character.
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A fair range of choice: justifying maximum patient choice in the British National Health Service.

TL;DR: An ethical argument for the provision of extensive patient choice by the British National Health Service is put forward, based on traditional liberal rights to freedom of choice, on a welfare right to health care, and on a view of health as values-based.
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Nanotechnology, Enhancement, and Human Nature

TL;DR: This paper critically examines the case for using two of the strongest arguments in the environmental ethics literature to show that nanotechnology-based human enhancements are impermissible: 1) The authors' species, like many other naturally occurring species, has aesthetic value and 2) their species plays valuable ecological roles.
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Toleration and Recognition: What should we teach?

TL;DR: However, not everything about toleration and recognition is controversial; there are fixed points from which students can grapple with the issues presented by both as discussed by the authors, and tolerance can also seem condescending; should we therefore replace it with recognition?
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Laying Futility to Rest

TL;DR: The formal structure of the concept of futility is examined, enabling identification of the appropriate roles played by patient, professional, and society, and for a limited positive ethical obligation on the part of health care professionals to assist patients in achieving certain restricted goals, including the preservation of life.
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Political liberalism: Reasonableness and democratic practice

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore an important concept in the work of the later Rawls, the idea of the reasonable, and conclude that this concept helps to bridge the gap between liberal theory and democratic practice.
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Human Development and Economic Sustainability

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate the concern for human development in the present with that in the future, and explore the relationship between distributional equity, sustainable development, optimal growth, and pure time preference.
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Multiple modernities: Kitchens for an African elite

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the materiality of change in urban Africa, focusing particularly on the kitchens of a group of first-generation pro-lifers in the Ivory Coast.
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Survey Article: The Coming of Age of Deliberative Democracy

TL;DR: The notion of deliberative democracy was coined by Bessette, who explicitly coined it to oppose the elitist or "aristocratic" interpretation of the American Constitution.
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Recognition without Ethics

TL;DR: This article propose an anaysis of gender that is broad enough to house the full range of feminist concerns, those central to the old socialist-feminism as well as identity-based conceptions.