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Public Philosophy is a collection of his own previously published essays examining the role of morality and justice in American political life. He offers a commentary on the roles of moral values and civic community in the American electoral process—a much-debated aspect of the 2004 US election cycle and of current political discussion.
A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society).
In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the Institutes of Justinian, a codification of Roman Law from the sixth century AD, where justice is defined as "the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due".
Arnold Stuart Zuboff (born 1946) is an American philosopher. He is the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem. [1] Zuboff has worked on topics such as personal identity, the philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of probability, [2] and a view analogous to open individualism—the position that there is one subject of experience, who is everyone ...
Herbert Morris was born in New York City in 1928. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 1951; Bachelor of Law, Yale, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford, 1956. He joined the UCLA Philosophy Department in 1956 and beginning in 1962 he accepted a joint appointment with the UCLA School of Law.
Thomas Michael "Tim" Scanlon (/ ˈ s k æ n l ən /; born June 28, 1940), usually cited as T. M. Scanlon, is an American philosopher.At the time of his retirement in 2016, he was the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity [1] in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy, where he had taught since 1984.
Stammler became a leading thinker in European jurisprudence, along with Gustav Radbruch (1878–1949) and Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), all of whom were greatly influenced by neo-Kantian philosophy. [4] He claimed that law plays a central role in shaping the economy, in contrast with the Marxist view that the laws evolve naturally to support a ...
Bentham defined as the "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law , and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism .