Jan Narveson
Biographic Data
| ID | 449114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Narveson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Narveson |
| SIGNATURE | NARVESON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9237-8004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Property-Owning Democracy’? ‘Liberal Socialism’? Or Just Plain Capitalism
Justin Holt argues that the Rawlsian requirements for justice are, contrary to Rawls’ own pronouncements, better met by socialism than ‘property owning democracy’, both of them preferring both to just plain capitalism, even with a welfare state tacked on. I suggest that Rawls’s ‘requirements’ are far less clear than most think, and that the only clarified version prefers the capitalist welfare state
Social Contract: The Only Game in Town
David Gauthier once said that the social contract offers ‘the only game in town’ if we hope for a rational morality. I argue that he’s correct. Morality consists of rules notionally directed at everyone everywhere. Only individual people are rational, and they have varying interests. The social contract proposes principles that everyone would, in view of their social and environmental circumstances, agree to as constraining their separate pursuit…
Sterba on Liberty and Welfarism
James Sterba advances several arguments designed to show that libertarianism, contrary to what this author and other libertarians think, actually implies support for welfarism and even egalitarianism. This discussion shows why his arguments do not work. There is preliminary discussion of our parameters: how much is Sterba claiming we have a minimum right to in the way of welfare? It is argued that if this is set very low, a libertarian society wo…
Freedom from Past Injustices Nahshon Perez Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012
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Comment on Tilo Wesche: On Property-Owning Democracy
The gist of Welsclie’s argument seems to be to pick up on an idea he attributes to Rawls, that in a true property-owning democracy, productive wealth would be distributed more broadly ‘ex ante’ rather than, as now, ‘ex post.’, the point of demarcation being the use of capital to generate wealth and income. As against this, I argue that ex ante distribution of capital is impossible, because business activity creates wealth, and thus we don’t know …
Property and Rights
I present what I take to be the “classical” approach to property rights, in which property is basically a unitary concept: owners are the ones with the right to do, and prohibit others from doing, whatever there is to do with the thing owned, within the limits imposed by the rights of others to their things. I expound and defend the idea of “first acquisition” in more or less Lockean mode. I also point to the many difficulties of application of t…
Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?
Justice in Health Care
The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice
The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice, Daniel K. Finn, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. ix, 169.There is a subtitle to this book: “Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice.” Its aim is not to settle the question of how just markets are, but rather to identify the framework within which the morality of markets can be profitably discussed. In the opening chapter, he takes to task some celebrated e…
Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics
We Don’t Owe Them a Thing!: A Tough-Minded but Soft-Hearted View of Aid to the Faraway Needy
The discovery that people far away are in bad shape seems to generate a sense of guilt on the part of many articulate people in our (wealthy) part of the world, even though they are no off now that we've heard about them than they had been before. I will take it as given that we are certainly responsible for evils we inflict on others, no matter where, and that we owe those people compensation. Not all similarly agree that it is not in general ou…
Professor Heath's Canada
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Pacifism, ideology and the human right of self-defence
In this essay,the case against pacifism is deepened by linking its rejection to a fundamental analysis of morality.The key is that morals are for everyone, and concern ordinary, discernible actions and effects, among which death and its avoidance rank very high. We all have in common that we must be alive if we are to accomplish our goals, realize our interests, experience value. It is in everyone's interest that others refrain from molestation o…
Liberal-Conservative: The Real Controversy
Libertarianism vs. Marxism: Reflections on G. A. Cohen‘s Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality
Wrongness, Wisdom and Wilderness
Egalitarianism: Partial, Counterproductive, and Baseless
Alan Gewirth's foundationalism and the well-being state
Inequality
The case for free market environmentalism
Response to Smith
John Stuart Mill as Philosopher
This substantial study appears in a series called The Arguments of the Philosophers. If Professor Skorupski's admirable work on Mill is typical, it will be a remarkable series. Both as a work of scholarship and as a contribution to philosophy in its own right, this is an outstanding work, well worth reading by the general philosopher and not just by Mill devotees
Democracy and Economic Rights
We have long been accustomed to thinking of democracy as a major selling point of Western institutions. That a set of political institutions should be democratic is widely regarded as the sine qua non of their legitimacy. So widespread is this belief that even those whose institutions do not look very democratic to us nevertheless insist on proclaiming them to be such (though the number taking this gambit dropped dramatically around the end of 19…
Libertarianism, postlibertarianism, and the welfare state: Reply to Friedman
Jeffrey Friedman broaches a number of criticisms of Libertarianism as a conceptual basis for opposing the extensive modern welfare state, examining several variants and concluding that they are fundamentally unsupported. He opts for a “consequentialist” view of foundations. Nevertheless, he thinks that the modem welfare state is subject to effective critique along such lines. But rational contractarian individualism works and does provide foundat…
Collective Rights?
The question addressed in this paper is whether there are any collective rights. I am inclined to answer this in the negative; but the main challenge is to provide a reasonably clear sense to the notion of collective rights. My negative answer will then be defended from a general viewpoint utilizing what we may call a kind of ‘individualism’. Some are inclined these days to reject a priori anything with that label. I shall have something to say l…
The nature and value of rights
Libertarianism, postlibertarianism, and the welfare state: Reply to Friedman
Jeffrey Friedman broaches a number of criticisms of Libertarianism as a conceptual basis for opposing the extensive modern welfare state, examining several variants and concluding that they are fundamentally unsupported. He opts for a “consequentialist” view of foundations. Nevertheless, he thinks that the modem welfare state is subject to effective critique along such lines. But rational contractarian individualism works and does provide foundat…
Property-Owning Democracy’? ‘Liberal Socialism’? Or Just Plain Capitalism
Justin Holt argues that the Rawlsian requirements for justice are, contrary to Rawls’ own pronouncements, better met by socialism than ‘property owning democracy’, both of them preferring both to just plain capitalism, even with a welfare state tacked on. I suggest that Rawls’s ‘requirements’ are far less clear than most think, and that the only clarified version prefers the capitalist welfare state
Shopping‐mall liberalism: Reply to Legutko
Gewirth'sReason and Morality- A Study in the Hazards of Universalizability in Ethics
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Intentional Behaviour and Social Science
V.—utilitarianism and New Generations
V.—UTILITARIANISM AND NEW GENERATIONS Get access JAN NARVESON JAN NARVESON University of New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume LXXVI, Issue 301, January 1967, Pages 62–72, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LXXVI.301.62 Published: 01 January 1967
Jerrold J. Katz The philosophy of language . New York: Harper and Row, 1966. xiii + 326 pp
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Morality and Utility
Morality and Utility
Book Reviews Get access Morality and Utility. By Jan Narveson. ( Johns Hopkins University Press. London : Oxford University Press. 1967. Pp. 303. Price 60s) G. R. Grice G. R. Grice Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 75, April 1969, Pages 180–181, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217702 Published: 01 April 1969
Utilitarianism and moral norms
The nature and value of rights
Pacifism: A Comment on Beehler's Note
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Moral Problems of Population
Journal Article Moral Problems of Population Get access Jan Narveson Jan Narveson University of Waterloo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 January 1973, Pages 62–86, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist197357134 Published: 19 December 2014
An overlooked aspect of the fairness-utility controversy
Semantics, Future Generations, and the Abortion Problem: Comments on a Fallacious Case Against the Morality of Abortion
In the Interest of the Governed: A Study in Bentham's Philosophy of Utility and Law
Introduction: The need for re-examination. Part 1 Bentham's utilitarianism: a differential interpretation the consistency of the dual standard the convergence of interests the development of Bentham's position. Part 2 Bentham on the nature of law: the imperational theory of law motivation and control
A Puzzle about Economic Justice in Rawls’ Theory
Intentional Behaviour and Social Science
Understanding Rawls
Tinkering and Abortion
The general anti-abortionist line is that abortion is wrong because it is the killing of innocent people. The main pro-abortionist response to this has been to deny that what is killed in an abortion is, properly speaking, a person. Killing these things merely prevents another person from being added to the world, just as would contraception, except at a later stage in the total process; abortion is not, therefore, any kind of murder, any depriva…
Principles of Legislation
Gewirth'sReason and Morality- A Study in the Hazards of Universalizability in Ethics
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Welfare, Justice and Freedom
Self-Love and Self-Respect
Egoism, the subject of this book, is of unending interest to moral philosophers. Campbell reasonably compares it to scepticism in epistemology: just as it is a touchstone of a good epistemological theory that it should show us why scepticism is unsatisfactory, so it is often taken to be a touchstone of a good moral theory that it shows us what is wrong with egoism. The parallel is imperfect in an interesting way, though; for while scarcely anyone…
On Dworkinian Equality
1. INTRODUCTION Professor Dworkin's writings on moral and political subjects have never failed to interest me in the past, and the two-part article “What is Equality” which is the subject of this paper, is no exception. Its wealth of relevant distinctions is bound to be useful to every serious student of the subject, whatever – or, in view of the range of opinions on these matters now current, perhaps I should say almost whatever – his (or, of co…
Morals and Marx
There are fourteen original papers (plus Kai Nielsen's introduction) in this substantial volume devoted to the general problem of the relation of Marxism, or at least Marxism as found in the works of Marx, and moral theory. The questions are, in Nielsen's words, “whether there should be or even could be a Marxist moral theory and if there could be a Marxist moral theory, what sort of a moral theory it should be” (1) (all references in this Critic…
Equality vs. Liberty: Advantage, Liberty
The subject of this essay is political, and therefore social, philosophy; and therefore, ethics. We want to know whether the right thing for a society to do is to incorporate in its structure requirements that we bring about equality, or liberty, or both if they are compatible, and if incompatible then which if either, or what sort of mix if they can to some degree be mixed. But this fairly succinct statement of the issue before us requires consi…
Two Comments on Nuclear Peace
Reason, Value and Desire
The general subject of Professor Bond's book, Reason and Value , is, as the title implies, the relation between reason and value, or more precisely the connections between concepts of motivation and value, with reasons as the contested notion in between. Bond offers a thesis that at least appears to go very much against the current trend on these matters. Whereas most recent theorists of note have tied justificatory reasons as well as explanatory…
The libertarian idea
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