Recently added articles from Social Theory and Practice:
Dismissive replies to "Why should I be moral?".(Essay)
Jul 01, 2009; ... 1. Replies to "Why should I be moral?" are generally of two kinds: those that purport to answer the question and those that dismiss it as spurious. Those of the first kind aim not to discredit the question but to show that everyone, including the why-be-moral skeptic, is ...
Role-based interpretations of moral judgments: an objectivist account.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Moral objectivism--the idea that moral properties are mind-independent, nonrelative, and real (instantiated)--has long been attractive. Indeed, many have been attracted to what might be called SuperDuper Objectivism, although perhaps less commonly in the last few centuries. As SDO has it, ...
On highest authority: do religious reasons have a place in public policy debates?(Essay)
Jul 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction The appropriate role of religion in a liberal democracy has in recent years been the topic of growing debate among social and political philosophers, legal scholars, and the public generally. Although there is general agreement that the liberal ideal of ...
Reaction qualifications revisited.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction The ideal of meritocracy plays an important part in the political self-understanding of most contemporary Western societies. We rightly take pride in the fact that, nowadays, differences between people's life prospects are determined less by accidents of birth ...
Rawls, self-respect, and the opportunity for meaningful work.(John Rawls)(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2009; ... In the introduction to the paperback edition of Political Liberalism (hereafter PLP), published in 1996, John Rawls says that one of the requirements for stability is "[s]ociety as an employer of last resort" (PLP, lix). (1) He explains: "[t]he lack of ... the opportunity for meaningful ...