Knowing What Justice Means and Being Committed to It: Remarks on Allen Buchanan's Analysis of Conservative Factual Beliefs. Issue 5 (22nd December 2021)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Knowing What Justice Means and Being Committed to It: Remarks on Allen Buchanan's Analysis of Conservative Factual Beliefs. Issue 5 (22nd December 2021)
- Main Title:
- Knowing What Justice Means and Being Committed to It: Remarks on Allen Buchanan's Analysis of Conservative Factual Beliefs
- Authors:
- Forst, Rainer
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Allen Buchanan argues that a particular set of false factual beliefs, especially when part of a comprehensive ideology, can lead persons to develop 'morally conservative' convictions that stand in the way of realising justice even though these persons have a 'firm grasp of correct principles of justice and a robust commitment to their realisation'. In my remarks, I raise some questions concerning the core argument: How 'firm' can a grasp of principles of justice be if a person is blind to the realities of injustice? And how 'sincerely committed' to justice can such an injustice‐insensitive person be? Alternatively: How firm is that grasp or commitment if one has a radically pessimistic view about human nature so that one does not believe that (egalitarian) justice can or could ever be realised? Secondly, I ask: If such ideologies or false beliefs are in play in reproducing injustice, do they not also 'mask' existing injustices?
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of applied philosophy. Volume 38:Issue 5(2021)
- Journal:
- Journal of applied philosophy
- Issue:
- Volume 38:Issue 5(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 38, Issue 5 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0038-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 742
- Page End:
- 746
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12-22
- Subjects:
- Philosophy -- Periodicals
Ethics -- Periodicals
Social ethics -- Periodicals
100 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-5930 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/japp.12540 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0264-3758
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