Leif Wenar
Biographic Data
| ID | 797432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leif Wenar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leif |
| FAMILY NAME | Wenar |
| SIGNATURE | WENAR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6885-0592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Value of Unity
Two debates over value are nearly coeval with philosophy itself. One debate is over what is good for its own sake (intrinsically good), the other is over what contributes to an individual's welfare (“what would make this person's life go, for him, as well as possible”).1 These two debates, over “the good” and “the good-for,” are distinct, yet they have been parallel both in their leading theories and their main objections. Historically, the leadi…
The Development of Unity
Martha Nussbaum’s list of the 10 central capabilities contains the most plausible account of valuable functionings that we have. In this lecture, I explore how Nussbaum’s account converges with the deepest explanation of what is intrinsically valuable—what is good in itself. This exploration shows how Nussbaum’s account tracks the same logic of value that we find in many of the world’s great philosophical traditions. What all of these philosopher…
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The Supply Side of Love
The Nature of Claim-Rights
This is a new analysis of rights, particularly of the paradigm: the claim-right. The new analysis makes better sense of rights than the leading alternatives do. The new analysis handles all of the well-known counterexamples to the Will and Interest theories; it seems not to generate counterexamples of its own; and it solves many long-standing puzzles in the theory of rights. Moreover, the central concepts of the new theory are as salient and forc…
Rawls
Giving Well
Here, a trio of editors bring together an international group of philosophers, social scientists, lawyers and practitioners to identify and address the moral questions arising today in the practice of philanthropy. The topics discussed include the psychology of giving, the reasons for and against a duty to give, and much more.
Giving Well
Here, a trio of editors bring together an international group of philosophers, social scientists, lawyers and practitioners to identify and address the moral questions arising today in the practice of philanthropy. The topics discussed include the psychology of giving, the reasons for and against a duty to give, and much more.
Clean Trade in Natural Resources
The “resource curse” can strike countries that derive a large portion of their national income from exporting high-value natural resources, such as oil, gas, metals, and gems. Resource-exporting countries are subject to four overlapping curses: they are more prone to authoritarianism, they tend to suffer more corruption, they are at a higher risk for civil wars, and they exhibit greater economic instability
Human rights and equality in the work of David Miller
David Miller’s position on global justice might be summarised as ‘sufficiency not equality’. Justice may require rich individuals to help poor foreigners, but it does not require equality between rich and poor for its own sake. Miller shares this general stance with many major contemporary figures (Rawls, Nagel, Scanlon, Buchanan, etc.), and shares the same justificatory burdens that this stance carries with it. The general challenge for the ‘suf…
Are Liberal Peoples Peaceful
Property Rights and the Resource Curse
Responsibility and Severe Poverty
Human rights define the most fundamental responsibilities of those who hold power. In the cases of the Holocaust, or of the Rwandan massacres, we do not need a theory to tell us who was responsible for the violations of human rights. The violators were those who authorized and carried out the atrocities, who failed so conspicuously in their duties toward the humans that became their victims. The subject of this volume presents a more difficult qu…
Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian
Reparations for the Future
Accountability in International Development Aid
Concerns over aid effectiveness have led to calls for greater accountability in international development aid. This article examines the state of accountability within and between international development agencies: aid NGOs, the international financial institutions, and government aid ministries. The investigation finds that there is very little accountability in these agencies, and that the accountability that there is often works against pover…
The Myth of Ownership
Book Review| April 01 2005 The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 228. Leif Wenar Leif Wenar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 285–288. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-114-2-285 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
The Nature of Rights
The twentieth century saw a vigorous debate over the nature of rights. Will theorists argued that the function of rights is to allocate domains of freedom. Interest theorists portrayed rights as defenders of well-being. Each side declared its conceptual analysis to be closer to an ordinary understanding of what rights there are, and to an ordinary understanding of what rights do for rightholders. Neither side could win a decisive victory, and the…
The Unity of Rawls’s Work
This article presents a unifying interpretation of Rawls’s major works. The interpretation emphasizes the parallels in Rawls’s theories of justice and legitimacy for domestic and global institutions.
What We Owe to Distant Others
What morality requires of us in a world of poverty and inequality depends both on what our duties are in the abstract, and on what we can do to help. T.M. Scanlon's contractualism addresses the first question. I suggest that contractualism isolates the moral factors that frame our deliberations about the extent of our obligations in situations of need. To this extent, contractualism clarifies our common-sense understanding of our duties to distan…
Contractualism and Global Economic Justice
This article examines Rawls's and Scanlon's surprisingly undemanding contractualist accounts of global moral principles. Scanlon's Principle of Rescue requires too little of the world's rich unless the causal links between them and the poor are unreliable. Rawls's principle of legitimacy leads him to theorize in terms of a law of peoples instead of persons, and his conception of a people leads him to spurn global distributive equality. Rawls's ap…
Political Liberalism
Property Rights and the Resource Curse
The Nature of Rights
The twentieth century saw a vigorous debate over the nature of rights. Will theorists argued that the function of rights is to allocate domains of freedom. Interest theorists portrayed rights as defenders of well-being. Each side declared its conceptual analysis to be closer to an ordinary understanding of what rights there are, and to an ordinary understanding of what rights do for rightholders. Neither side could win a decisive victory, and the…
Accountability in International Development Aid
Concerns over aid effectiveness have led to calls for greater accountability in international development aid. This article examines the state of accountability within and between international development agencies: aid NGOs, the international financial institutions, and government aid ministries. The investigation finds that there is very little accountability in these agencies, and that the accountability that there is often works against pover…
What We Owe to Distant Others
What morality requires of us in a world of poverty and inequality depends both on what our duties are in the abstract, and on what we can do to help. T.M. Scanlon's contractualism addresses the first question. I suggest that contractualism isolates the moral factors that frame our deliberations about the extent of our obligations in situations of need. To this extent, contractualism clarifies our common-sense understanding of our duties to distan…
Clean Trade in Natural Resources
The “resource curse” can strike countries that derive a large portion of their national income from exporting high-value natural resources, such as oil, gas, metals, and gems. Resource-exporting countries are subject to four overlapping curses: they are more prone to authoritarianism, they tend to suffer more corruption, they are at a higher risk for civil wars, and they exhibit greater economic instability
Human rights and equality in the work of David Miller
David Miller’s position on global justice might be summarised as ‘sufficiency not equality’. Justice may require rich individuals to help poor foreigners, but it does not require equality between rich and poor for its own sake. Miller shares this general stance with many major contemporary figures (Rawls, Nagel, Scanlon, Buchanan, etc.), and shares the same justificatory burdens that this stance carries with it. The general challenge for the ‘suf…
Are Liberal Peoples Peaceful
The Supply Side of Love
The Development of Unity
Martha Nussbaum’s list of the 10 central capabilities contains the most plausible account of valuable functionings that we have. In this lecture, I explore how Nussbaum’s account converges with the deepest explanation of what is intrinsically valuable—what is good in itself. This exploration shows how Nussbaum’s account tracks the same logic of value that we find in many of the world’s great philosophical traditions. What all of these philosopher…
Political Liberalism
Contractualism and Global Economic Justice
This article examines Rawls's and Scanlon's surprisingly undemanding contractualist accounts of global moral principles. Scanlon's Principle of Rescue requires too little of the world's rich unless the causal links between them and the poor are unreliable. Rawls's principle of legitimacy leads him to theorize in terms of a law of peoples instead of persons, and his conception of a people leads him to spurn global distributive equality. Rawls's ap…
What We Owe to Distant Others
What morality requires of us in a world of poverty and inequality depends both on what our duties are in the abstract, and on what we can do to help. T.M. Scanlon's contractualism addresses the first question. I suggest that contractualism isolates the moral factors that frame our deliberations about the extent of our obligations in situations of need. To this extent, contractualism clarifies our common-sense understanding of our duties to distan…
The Unity of Rawls’s Work
This article presents a unifying interpretation of Rawls’s major works. The interpretation emphasizes the parallels in Rawls’s theories of justice and legitimacy for domestic and global institutions.
The Myth of Ownership
Book Review| April 01 2005 The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 228. Leif Wenar Leif Wenar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 285–288. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-114-2-285 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
The Nature of Rights
The twentieth century saw a vigorous debate over the nature of rights. Will theorists argued that the function of rights is to allocate domains of freedom. Interest theorists portrayed rights as defenders of well-being. Each side declared its conceptual analysis to be closer to an ordinary understanding of what rights there are, and to an ordinary understanding of what rights do for rightholders. Neither side could win a decisive victory, and the…
Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian
Reparations for the Future
Accountability in International Development Aid
Concerns over aid effectiveness have led to calls for greater accountability in international development aid. This article examines the state of accountability within and between international development agencies: aid NGOs, the international financial institutions, and government aid ministries. The investigation finds that there is very little accountability in these agencies, and that the accountability that there is often works against pover…
Responsibility and Severe Poverty
Human rights define the most fundamental responsibilities of those who hold power. In the cases of the Holocaust, or of the Rwandan massacres, we do not need a theory to tell us who was responsible for the violations of human rights. The violators were those who authorized and carried out the atrocities, who failed so conspicuously in their duties toward the humans that became their victims. The subject of this volume presents a more difficult qu…
Human rights and equality in the work of David Miller
David Miller’s position on global justice might be summarised as ‘sufficiency not equality’. Justice may require rich individuals to help poor foreigners, but it does not require equality between rich and poor for its own sake. Miller shares this general stance with many major contemporary figures (Rawls, Nagel, Scanlon, Buchanan, etc.), and shares the same justificatory burdens that this stance carries with it. The general challenge for the ‘suf…
Are Liberal Peoples Peaceful
Property Rights and the Resource Curse
Giving Well
Here, a trio of editors bring together an international group of philosophers, social scientists, lawyers and practitioners to identify and address the moral questions arising today in the practice of philanthropy. The topics discussed include the psychology of giving, the reasons for and against a duty to give, and much more.
Giving Well
Here, a trio of editors bring together an international group of philosophers, social scientists, lawyers and practitioners to identify and address the moral questions arising today in the practice of philanthropy. The topics discussed include the psychology of giving, the reasons for and against a duty to give, and much more.
Clean Trade in Natural Resources
The “resource curse” can strike countries that derive a large portion of their national income from exporting high-value natural resources, such as oil, gas, metals, and gems. Resource-exporting countries are subject to four overlapping curses: they are more prone to authoritarianism, they tend to suffer more corruption, they are at a higher risk for civil wars, and they exhibit greater economic instability
Rawls
The Nature of Claim-Rights
This is a new analysis of rights, particularly of the paradigm: the claim-right. The new analysis makes better sense of rights than the leading alternatives do. The new analysis handles all of the well-known counterexamples to the Will and Interest theories; it seems not to generate counterexamples of its own; and it solves many long-standing puzzles in the theory of rights. Moreover, the central concepts of the new theory are as salient and forc…
Books by Our Readers
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Supply Side of Love
The Development of Unity
Martha Nussbaum’s list of the 10 central capabilities contains the most plausible account of valuable functionings that we have. In this lecture, I explore how Nussbaum’s account converges with the deepest explanation of what is intrinsically valuable—what is good in itself. This exploration shows how Nussbaum’s account tracks the same logic of value that we find in many of the world’s great philosophical traditions. What all of these philosopher…
The Value of Unity
Two debates over value are nearly coeval with philosophy itself. One debate is over what is good for its own sake (intrinsically good), the other is over what contributes to an individual's welfare (“what would make this person's life go, for him, as well as possible”).1 These two debates, over “the good” and “the good-for,” are distinct, yet they have been parallel both in their leading theories and their main objections. Historically, the leadi…
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