Taking People as They Are
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6325808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Cohen (0000-0003-1227-8416, Health Affairs, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 363-386 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy & Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-3915 • E-ISSN: 1088-4963 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2001.00363.x |
| OpenAlex | W2136201327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 56 |
| References cited | 12 |
My purpose is to consider if, in political society, there can be any legitimate and sure principle of government, taking men as they are and laws as they might be.—Jean‐Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Following Rousseau's opening thought in The Social Contract..., I shall assume that his phrase “men as they are” refers to persons' moral and psychological natures and how that nature works within the framework of political and social institutions.—John Rawls, The Law of peoples
Epistemology · General Will · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Phrase · Political science · Politics · Social contract · Sociology · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Toward a Humanist Justice
Moral Character, Liberal States, and Civic Education
The Republican Dilemma
The Basic Structure of Society as the Primary Subject of Justice
Toward a humanist justice
A Matter of Demolition?
Equality of Opportunity and the Family
Rescuing Socialism from Equality
How political is the personal?
Rawls's A Theory of Justice
Is the Basic Structure Basic?
Ethos and Institution
Rawls, Political Liberalism and Reasonable Faith
Justice for Earthlings
Analyzing Oppression
Cohen's Critique of Rawls
The Fundamental Disagreement between Luck Egalitarians and Relational Egalitarians
Political philosophy for Earthlings
The fundamental disagreement between luck egalitarians and relational egalitarians
Independence for Children
Occupational Choice and the Egalitarian Ethos
Limitarianism, Institutionalism, and Justice
If You’re an Egalitarian, You Shouldn’t be so Rich
A non‐European European Union
Shameless luck egalitarians
Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City
Solidarity
Immigration and the Constraints of Justice
Sobre associativismo, desigualdades e democracia
Fraternal Society in Rawls’ Property-Owning Democracy
Les riches et les pauvres. Rawls et l’égalitarisme
Obligations of productive justice
Property, nature, and the freedom to roam
Justice and beneficence
The problem of stability and the ethos-based solution
What Makes a Basic Structure Just
The Indeterminacy of the Principles of Justice
Putting Incentives in Context
Rescuing Rawls’s Institutionalism and Incentives Inequality
Rationality, Norms and Institutions
Social Trust and the Ethics of Immigration Policy
The Difference Principle at Work
Norms, Motives and Radical Democracy
Marx, Rawls, Cohen, and Feminism
How to read for current developments in human genetics relevant to justice
The pervasive structure of society
Justice, the Basic Structure, and Stability
Rawls and racial justice
The inegalitarian ethos
Justice in Theory and Practice
The Scope of Public Reason
Facts and Principles
Private Incarceration – Towards a Philosophical Critique
Critical theory and social justice
Por que se importar com a desigualdade
Taking People As They Are
If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?
The Idea of Public Reason Revisited
A Theory of Justice
The Pareto Argument for Inequality
Debate
Justice as Fairness
Rights and Duties in an Egalitarian Society
Where the Action Is
On the Site of Distributive Justice
Incentives, Inequality, and Publicity
Fairness, Respect, and the Egalitarian Ethos
Differences and Changes in Wage Structures
| Unique citing works | 56 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |