Search for dissertations about: "John Rawls"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words John Rawls.
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6. Reconceiving Public Reason : Neutrality, Civility, and the Self-Defeat Objection
Abstract : How should we live together? The question is at the heart of social ethics and it is an as urgent political question as ever. In this thesis, one particularly attractive reply to this central issue is analysed—John Rawls’s theory of public reason, and three different objections that have been put against it. READ MORE
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7. Do Your Bit, Claim Your Share : Justice, Ethos, and the Individual Duty to Contribute
Abstract : Contemporary political philosophy primarily conceives of justice as a virtue of major social institutions. Yet, much advocacy of justice is increasingly focused on how well particular individuals live up to its demands, and proceeds by calling out and criticising their unjust behaviour. READ MORE
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8. Justice and the Prejudices of Culture : On Choice, Social Background and Unequal Opportunities in the Liberal Society
Abstract : Egalitarian liberal theories of justice – so this dissertation argues – fail to take into accountthe full implications of the way citizens’ socio-cultural backgrounds work to undermine theequal opportunities these same theories demand. While egalitarians support extensiveredistribution of income and wealth from the privileged to the less privileged, and advocateequal opportunities for all, they do not properly attend either to how our shared societalcultures structure social esteem and related advantages, or to how our individual socioculturalenvironments structure the very act of choice. READ MORE
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9. The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreements for Nurses : Perspectives from the Philippines
Abstract : The dissertation "The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreement for Global Nurses - Perspectives from the Philippines" is written in the research area of applied ethics and examines ethical aspects of labor migration in the specific area of healthcare, with the Philippines as an example. The central questions for the dissertation are the ethical issues of nurse migration in the Philippine context. READ MORE
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10. Reflective Equilibrium : An Essay in Moral Epistemology
Abstract : In recent literature conceming the possibility of moral knowledge, it has been popular to apply coherentist accounts of epistemic justification to moral beliefs. This strategy is commonly associated with the notion of "reflective equilibrium" since the introductionof this term by John Rawls. READ MORE