The uncomfortable question of urgency for liberal thought: A dialogue between John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and contemporary liberal theory

Amartya Sen and Thomas M. Scanlon confront liberal theories of primary goods by asking how they determine the appropriate political urgency for some goods over others. Their review of arguments of welfare optimization through impartial reasoning reveals a lack of discussion on why in a democracy som...

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Autor principal: Burbidge, D
Format: Journal article
Publicat: Clarion Review 2017