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The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, Equality, and the Right to Bequeath
A significant obstacle to the realization of the free and equal status of all citizens within democratic societies is the inheritance of wealth — or more precisely, the intergenerational accumulation and transfer of wealth within families. The extreme wealth inequality … Continue reading
Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress
Alasia Nuti believes, however, that current approaches to the issue have serious defects, and she offers a new theory, which sees the past and the present linked inextricably by “historical structures.” Nuti then applies her theory to the situation of … Continue reading
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Health and the Good Society: Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context
For many of us working in bioethics, the most exciting movement in our field is what Alan Cribb calls the “social turn” in healthcare ethics. A touchstone for Cribb’s framework-building project in Health and the Good Society is the question: … Continue reading
The Value of Emotions for Knowledge
If we could assign a foil for this volume, it would be the view that takes emotions to be opposed to rationality, a view on which emotions are generally distracting, fact-twisting, misleading, and unreliable, hindering rather than furthering our epistemic … Continue reading
The Future of Human Nature
Germany—even when contrasted with other European countries—has taken a very conservative attitude toward anything that smacks of eugenics (for clear historical reasons), and Habermas has been one of the most prominent voices reminding his countrymen that they cannot and dare … Continue reading
Structural Injustice: Power, Advantage, and Human Rights
Structural injustice is a compelling topic. This is in part because its currency in contemporary discourse has exceeded the intensity of its philosophical discussion. Claims of structural injustice are increasingly familiar, but this has not been prompted by theoretical developments; … Continue reading
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Rediscovering Political Friendship: Aristotle’s Theory and Modern Identity, Community, and Equality
Those of us who live in liberal democracies do not tend to think of ourselves as connected to our fellow citizens by bonds of friendship. Most of us recognize special obligations towards our fellow citizens on account of our shared … Continue reading
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Knowing Other Minds
Many of us have spent a considerable amount of 2020 working and teaching in a much more solitary environment than we’re used to. Rather than conversing with one another in person, we are instead spending hours and hours staring at … Continue reading
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
In this timely book, Toby Ord argues that there is a one in six chance that humanity will suffer an existential catastrophe within the next 100 years, and that minimizing this risk should be a major global priority. We live … Continue reading
Relational Egalitarianism is Not about Egalitarian Relationships
That equality is an essential part of justice – or even that justice just is some kind of equality – has been central to the way many people have thought about equality and justice at least since the American and … Continue reading
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