LOUIS-PHILIPPE HODGSON
Biographic Data
| ID | 5723107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | LOUIS-PHILIPPE HODGSON |
| GIVEN NAMES | LOUIS-PHILIPPE |
| FAMILY NAME | HODGSON |
| SIGNATURE | HODGSON L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Justice as Luck Egalitarian Fairness
In A Conceptual Investigation of Justice , Kyle Johannsen maintains that the strongest version of John Rawls’s theory of justice is one that incorporates the luck egalitarian conception of fairness developed by G.A. Cohen. He also contends that, once the theory is modified in this way, it becomes clear that the original position doesn’t yield principles of justice but rather what Cohen calls ‘rules of regulation.’ I argue that the minimal concept…
Why the Basic Structure?
John Rawls famously holds that the basic structure is the ‘primary subject of justice.’ By this, he means that his two principles of justice apply only to a society's major political and social institutions, including chiefly the constitution, the economic and legal systems, and (more contentiously) the family structure. This thesis — call it the basic structure restriction — entails that the celebrated difference principle has a narrower scope t…
Kant on Property Rights and the State
The central claim of Kant's political philosophy is that rational agents sharing a territory can justifiably be forced to live under a state; they have, in Kant's words, a duty of right to leave the state of nature. Perhaps something along these lines is entailed by any theory of state legitimacy, but the point raises special difficulties for Kant. He believes that rational agents have a right to freedom ; that is, he believes that a rational age…
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Kant on Property Rights and the State
The central claim of Kant's political philosophy is that rational agents sharing a territory can justifiably be forced to live under a state; they have, in Kant's words, a duty of right to leave the state of nature. Perhaps something along these lines is entailed by any theory of state legitimacy, but the point raises special difficulties for Kant. He believes that rational agents have a right to freedom ; that is, he believes that a rational age…
Why the Basic Structure?
John Rawls famously holds that the basic structure is the ‘primary subject of justice.’ By this, he means that his two principles of justice apply only to a society's major political and social institutions, including chiefly the constitution, the economic and legal systems, and (more contentiously) the family structure. This thesis — call it the basic structure restriction — entails that the celebrated difference principle has a narrower scope t…
Justice as Luck Egalitarian Fairness
In A Conceptual Investigation of Justice , Kyle Johannsen maintains that the strongest version of John Rawls’s theory of justice is one that incorporates the luck egalitarian conception of fairness developed by G.A. Cohen. He also contends that, once the theory is modified in this way, it becomes clear that the original position doesn’t yield principles of justice but rather what Cohen calls ‘rules of regulation.’ I argue that the minimal concept…
Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Duty (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works)