The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)
by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words
that sidestep any reference to preferences, and that do allow us to make comparisons across people. One of these alternatives is the framework proposed by John Rawls in his famous A Theory of Justice. In addition to fundamental rights, Rawls discusses what he calls primary goods. These primary goods are basic resources
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principle, measurable and, as such, allow for comparisons across people. There is no reference to subjective preferences in the definition of primary goods. Building on John Rawls’s approach, Amartya Sen proposed to focus on capabilities. Capabilities are the effective options available to us. They are like the set of constraints that
The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
by Michael Huemer · 29 Oct 2012 · 577pp · 149,554 words
to force parties to do so. 3.4 Hypothetical consent and ethical constraints 3.4.1 Rawls’s contract theory as an account of authority John Rawls, the most influential political philosopher, advances a hypothetical social contract theory. 3.4.2 Could agreement be reached? There is no reason to think agreement
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that we might alter our motivations in such a way that the conditions for legitimacy would become satisfiable in the future. In his later work, John Rawls takes a view similar to Nagel’s view of the conditions for political legitimacy, though he seems more sanguine about the prospects for agreement. Rawls
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be unreasonable to reject the arrangement. 3.4 Hypothetical consent and ethical constraints 3.4.1 Rawls’s contract theory as an account of authority John Rawls is, by far and without question, the most influential political philosopher of the last hundred years. As a rough indicator, a search for the keyword
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. The most respected contemporary political philosophers usually employ language reminiscent of legalese. Consider a representative passage from the most celebrated political thinker of recent times, John Rawls: I should now like to comment upon the second part of the second principle, henceforth to be understood as the liberal principle of fair equality
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ethical questions frequently have no easy answers. 7.5.2 Process versus substance In an early article defending the Fair Play Account of political obligation, John Rawls takes as his central question, ‘How is it possible that a person, in accordance with his own conception of justice, should find himself bound by
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Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility’, Journal of Political Economy 63: 309–21. ——. 1975. ‘Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls’s Theory’, American Political Science Review 69: 594–606. Hart, H. L. A. 1955. ‘Are There Any Natural Rights?’ Philosophical Review 64: 175–91. ——. 1958
Universal Basic Income and the Reshaping of Democracy: Towards a Citizens’ Stipend in a New Political Order
by Burkhard Wehner · 10 Jan 2019
plausible answer. That existing democratic procedures would not be adequate to basic income projects can be inferred from experience, but equally convincing from philosophical arguments. John Rawls, in A Theory of Justice (Rawls 1971), argued that decision makers on distributional justice should be disinterested persons for whom nothing personal is at stake
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
by John J. Mearsheimer · 24 Sep 2018 · 443pp · 125,510 words
, since it aims to deal with political problems in the legal system, not the political arena. John Gray captures this point in his assessment of John Rawls’s thinking: “The central institution of Rawls’s ‘political liberalism’ is not a deliberative assembly such as a parliament. It is a court of law
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powers for the benefit of mankind.”27 The most prominent progressive liberals over the past fifty years include Ronald Dworkin, Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker, and John Rawls. Fukuyama’s famous 1989 article “The End of History?,” which argued that with the fall of communism the question of the ideal form of government
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liberalism, and by the early twentieth century it was the dominant form of political liberalism in American and British politics. Its king of thought is John Rawls. The key indicator of liberal progressivism’s triumph is that the interventionist state, committed in its liberal form to fostering economic opportunity as well as
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has long been widespread in the United States, as Louis Hartz makes clear in The Liberal Tradition in America. It is also on display in John Rawls’s The Law of Peoples, where he makes it clear that the best world is one populated solely with liberal democracies.96 John Locke also
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most and how to weigh them when they come into conflict. The problem is especially complicated when promoting equality is thrown into the mix.102 John Rawls maintains that “applying liberal principles has a certain simplicity,” but this is only sometimes true.103 Think about hate speech. Liberals who are absolutists regarding
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the window “when we are face-to-face not merely with defeat but with a defeat likely to bring disaster to a political community.”107 John Rawls too maintains that “political liberalism allows the supreme emergency exemption.”108 Countries or regions that have experienced great upheaval usually show a yearning for political
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that rights apply equally to people everywhere. They talk about human rights, not national rights, and the former trump the latter. This effectively neutralizes hypernationalism. John Rawls, for example, focuses explicitly on “peoples” in his major treatise on international relations, showing that he understands the world is divided into different nations. (Peoples
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.” As Christopher Layne notes, “These are not isolated comments. . . . American statesmen have frequently expressed this view.”3 This missionary zeal is hardly limited to policymakers. John Rawls, for example, writes, “It is characteristic of liberal and decent peoples that they seek a world in which all peoples have a well-ordered regime
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to violence. There is no assurance that conflicts will be resolved peacefully. This is why virtually every liberal recognizes the need for a state—including John Rawls, who is especially optimistic about the hexing power of tolerance. Democracy faces the same problem. It too is predicated on the assumption that citizens will
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Government, ed. Thomas P. Peardon (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952), p. 4. Also see Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, pp. 138–39; John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 12–13, 17, 19. As Alan Ryan
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theorists do not fit perfectly into one category or the other, although some do. John Locke, for example, is clearly a modus vivendi liberal, while John Rawls fits squarely in the progressive liberal category. Regardless, my main concern is not to categorize particular liberal scholars according to one school of thought or
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” (BCSIA Discussion Paper 2000-07, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 2000), p. 18. Fischer also talks about the “emptiness of liberalism” (p. 59). John Rawls is well aware of the charge that liberalism is “distraught by spiritual emptiness.” While he notes that “spiritual questions” are certainly important, he believes that
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dealing with them is not the government’s business; instead “it leaves them for each citizen to decide for himself or herself.” John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 127. 18. Stephen Holmes, Passions and Constraint
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. Waltz, “Kant, Liberalism, and War,” p. 331. 39. Rawls, The Law of Peoples, pp. 34, 85. 40. This quote and the subsequent one are from John Rawls, Political Liberalism, expanded ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), p. xxxvii. 41. Rawls, The Law of Peoples, pp. 25, 125. For an elaboration of
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each individual assesses a politician’s position on the issues he cares about most. 92. Most liberal theorists acknowledge that individuals have important social ties. John Rawls, for example, writes: “Each person finds himself placed at birth in some particular position in some particular society, and the nature of his position materially
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affects his life prospects.” John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 13. Moreover, in The Law of Peoples: With “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited
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. 102. H. L. A. Hart, “Rawls on Liberty and Its Priority,” in Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 223–47. 103. John Rawls, Political Liberalism, expanded ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), p. 162. 104. Contrast the views of Jeremy Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech (Cambridge
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.” John M. Owen, “How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace,” International Security 19, no. 2 (Fall 1994): 89. 8. Ikenberry, “Liberal Internationalism 3.0,” p. 72. 9. John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 35. 10. Rawls, The Law of Peoples
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in this paragraph are from Christopher Layne, “Kant or Cant: The Myth of the Democratic Peace,” International Security 19, no. 2 (Fall 1994): 46. 4. John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 93, 113. 5. Rawls, The Law of
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point. Doyle, “Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs,” part 2, p. 344. The overlap between just war theory and democratic peace theory is reflected in John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991). Rawls’s discussion of just war theory, for
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are from ibid. Also see Axelrod and Keohane, “Achieving Cooperation under Anarchy,” pp. 232–33. Chapter 8. The Case for Restraint 1. Scholars such as John Rawls and Michael Walzer are aware of the crusading impulse built into liberal theory, and go to considerable lengths to argue against using force to make
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the world a better place. See Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (New York: Basic Books, 2007); John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999). This discussion of Walzer’s views points up
Anarchy State and Utopia
by Robert Nozick · 15 Mar 1974 · 524pp · 146,798 words
of the State.© 1968, pp 21-22, reprinted by permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Excerpts from A Theory of Justice by John Rawls are reprinted by permission of the publishers, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press and Oxford: The Clarendon Press, and are copyright © 1971
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theory to dissect and criticize other theories of distributive justice which do envisage a more extensive state, focusing especially on the recent powerful theory of John Rawls. Other reasons that some might think justify a more extensive state are criticized, including equality, envy, workers’ control, and Marxian theories of exploitation. (Readers who
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very helpful written comments on the whole manuscript written at the Center from W. V. Quine, Derek Parfit, and Gilbert Harman, on Chapter 7 from John Rawls and Frank Michelman, and on an earlier draft of Part I from Alan Dershowitz. I also have benefited from a discussion with Ronald Dworkin on
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; so it will be in his interests not to bind himself to participate. “THE PRINCIPLE OF FAIRNESS” A principle suggested by Herbert Hart, which (following John Rawls) we shall call the principle of fairness, would be of service here if it were adequate. This principle holds that when a number of persons
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introduced by the Lockean proviso. SECTION II RAWLS’ THEORY We can bring our discussion of distributive justice into sharper focus by considering in some detail John Rawls’ recent contribution to the subject. A Theory of Justice 15 is a powerful, deep, subtle, wide-ranging, systematic work in political and moral philosophy which
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these issues in footnote 4 of “On the Randian Argument,” The Personalist, Spring 1971. 2 For a clear statement that this view is mistaken, see John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 30, 565-566. 3 Which does which? Often a useful question to ask, as
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other riddles talks.” 4 Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. Translated by H. J. Paton, The Moral Law (London: Hutchinson, 1956), p. 96. 5 See John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, sects. 5, 6, 30. 6 See Gilbert Harman, “The Inference to the Best Explanation,” Philosophical Review, 1965, pp, 88-95, and
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objection to viewing the condition as sufficient to Ronald Hamowy. CHAPTER 5 / The State 1 Herbert Hart, “Are There Any Natural Rights?” Philosophical Review, 1955; John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), sect. 18. My statement of the principle stays close to Rawls’. The argument Rawls offers
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itself in question here, the analysis is necessarily delicate.” Kenneth Arrow, “Economic Equilibrium,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. 4, p. 381. 3 See John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), chap. 9, sect. 79, “The Idea of a Social Union,” and Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster, “The General Theory of Second Best,” Review of Economic Studies, 24 (December 1956), which has stimulated an extensive literature. 5 Compare John Rawls, Theory of Justice, sect. 63, n. II. It is not clear how extensively Rawls’ later text would have to be revised to take this point
Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook · 28 Mar 2016 · 345pp · 92,849 words
is seldom defined, and comes in a variety of flavors, but the most influential conception of equality of opportunity comes from the late egalitarian philosopher John Rawls. For Rawls, equality of opportunity does not refer simply to the absence of legal barriers to success (e.g., Jim Crow laws), but to equality
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they are in the interest of all and in particular of the most disadvantaged social groups. . . . The ‘difference principle’ introduced by the U.S. philosopher John Rawls in his Theory of Justice is similar in intent.”18 This means, for instance, that if you earn a million dollars when most people make
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a resounding “no.” Why not? For that, we need to turn to the philosopher Piketty cites in support of his theory: the late Harvard philosopher John Rawls. Most inequality critics today are economists, journalists, politicians, policy wonks, or political commentators. But most of their ideas are derived from egalitarian philosophers: Rousseau, Marx
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(accessed May 28, 2015). 20. Ayn Rand, “What Is Capitalism?” reprinted in Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (New York: Signet, 1967), p. 9. 21. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 62. 22. Ibid., p. 62. 23. G. A. Cohen, “Incentives, Inequality, and Community,” The
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght · 20 Mar 2017
socially useful yet unpaid activities, to protecting our lives against forced mobility and destructive globalization, and to emancipating us from the despotism of the market. John Rawls Versus the Malibu Surfers The conception of distributive justice appealed to in the previous section is one that belongs to a �family of conceptions
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worst prospects, not about equalizing prospects even at everyÂ�one’s expense. The most influential theory that fits this characterization is the one proposed by John Rawls, founding Â�father of the liberal-Â�egalitarian tradition and of conÂ�temporary poÂ�litiÂ�cal philosophy, in his 1971 A Theory of Justice. Does
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demogrant—Â�that is, an unconditional basic income.33 Consequently, the Rawlsian case for basic income seems overwhelming. It just needs spelling out.34 Yet, John Rawls himself did not agree. He wrote that “Â�those who surf all day off Malibu must find a way to support themselves and would not
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the end, Rawls himself remained more attracted to guaranteed employment and wage subsidies than to an unconditional basic income.42 Ronald Dworkin Versus the Beachcombers John Rawls’s theory of justice is the most influential but not the only member of the liberal-Â�egalitarian Â�family. The more philosophically inclined among
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are committed, as we are, to a liberal-�egalitarian conception of social justice have been discussing this issue intensively since the 1990s. Some, including John Rawls, consider that the demands of egalitarian justice apply only within Vi able i n the G lo bal Era? M ulti -L evel Basi c
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-Â�border transfers (see chapter 8). 2. Basic Income and Its Cousins 1. We do not discuss Â�here more comprehensive “realist utopias” such as John Rawls’s (1971: section 42, 2001: section 41) “property-Â�owning democracy,” an institutional framework that we believe is consistent with an unconditional basic income (see
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2009, 2015. Reciprocity, in the sense entailed by the indictment of Â�free riding, is crucially distinct from the much broader “criterion of reciprocity” which John Rawls (1999: 14) says must be satisfied by any acceptable set of princiÂ�ples of justice. This criterion requires that the terms of cooperation should be
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the poor’s tax be not levied by distinct parishes, but by one equal tax throughout the Â�whole corporation.” 25. Including, for example, in John Rawls’s (1999: 74) theory of international justice. 26. See Steiner 2003 for a critique of this “solidaristic patriotism” and, for a response, Van Parijs 2003b
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Theory.” Politics and Society 15: 453–482. —Â�—Â�—. 1988. “Rawls face aux libertariens.” In Catherine Audard et al., Individu et justice sociale. Autour de John Rawls, 193–218. Paris: Le Seuil. —Â�—Â�—. 1990. “The Second Marriage of Justice and Efficiency.” Journal of Social Policy 19: 1–25. —Â�—Â�—. 1991
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Â�Family. Reply to Seven Critics.” Analyse & Kritik 23: 106–131. —Â�—Â�—. 2002. “Difference PrinciÂ�ples.” In Samuel Freeman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to John Rawls, 200–240. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. —Â�—Â�—Â�, ed. 2003a. Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity. Brussels: De Boeck Université. http://Â�w ww╉.Â
The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
by Branko Milanovic · 15 Dec 2010 · 251pp · 69,245 words
Chen, whose assistance on Chinese household surveys was invaluable; Leif Wenar, to whose advice regarding issues of political philosophy and in particular the interpretation of John Rawls’s works I have frequently turned and who has given me excellent comments on several parts of the manuscript; and Slaheddine Khenissi, for his vast
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ruins of this dream was built the most famous recent attempt to provide some guidance on how to reconcile economic inequality and justice: that of John Rawls, an American political philosopher. Rawls, in enunciating his celebrated “difference principle” in A Theory of Justice published in 1971, argued that the justification for any
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not rule out humanitarian duty of assistance to foreigners, but it also does not impose on rich people and rich countries anything beyond that. Philosopher John Rawls offered a different view of why global inequality is immaterial. Rawls saw the most desirable global arrangement as the one where conditions from his Theory
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did not change even if the nationality of the rulers did. Vignette 3.8 Why Was Rawls Indifferent to Global Inequality? To those who know John Rawls through his A Theory of Justice, the question in this vignette’s title may come as a surprise. After all, Rawls is rightly associated with
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goes back to John Harsanyi, “Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and the Inter-personal Comparisons of Utility,” Journal of Political Economy 63 (1955): 309-321. 17 John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, rev. ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 13. 18 Ibid., 54. 19 Rawls indirectly excluded the situation where the absolute improvements
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include the estimated incomes of the colonizers. 4 In approximately today’s PPP dollars. 5 British income distribution data for 2004. Vignette 3.8 1 John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 39. 2 “Peoples have a duty to assist other peoples living under unfavorable conditions that prevent
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?
by Michael J. Sandel · 9 Sep 2020 · 493pp · 98,982 words
based on what people merit or deserve. Welfare State Liberalism Welfare state liberalism (or “egalitarian liberalism”) finds its fullest philosophical expression in the work of John Rawls, the noted twentieth-century American political philosopher. In his classic work A Theory of Justice (1971), Rawls argues that even a system of fair equality
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New York Times , March 29, 2019, nytimes.com/2019/03/29/dining/chicken-paillard-recipe.html?searchResultPosition=1 . 20. See the discussion of Friedrich Hayek, John Rawls, and the luck egalitarians in chapter 3. 21. Reagan used “you deserve” 31 times, compared with a total of 27 uses by Presidents Kennedy, Johnson
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of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), pp. 92–93. 20. Ibid., pp. 85–102. 21. Ibid., p. 93. 22. Ibid., p. 94. 23. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971). 24. Ibid., pp. 73–74. 25. Ibid., p. 75. 26. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., “Harrison Bergeron
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national borders? The ne plus ultra of the nation-state? This is a question that political philosophers have thought about more than economists. Some, following John Rawls and his Law of Peoples (1999), believe that global equality of opportunity is not a significant issue and that every argument for it conflicts with
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legal equality between the different groups that humans are divided into, but also substantively greater income and wealth equality. Existential equality is equivalent to what John Rawls calls meritocratic equality—what he views as the lowest level of equality, where all participants are legally free to pursue whatever career they choose but
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