Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Love, On the Univocity of Rawls’s Difference Principle
Love, On the Univocity of Rawls’s Difference Principle

Alain Boyer

دوره 17، شماره 45 ، دی 1402، ، صفحه 60-71

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17366

چکیده
  A double ambiguity has been charged against Rawls’s difference principle (DP). Is it Maximin, Leximin, or something else? Usually, following A. Sen, scholars identify DP with the so-called Leximin. One argues here that one has to distinguish 1° the Leximin, 2° the Maximin (as rule of justice formally analogous to the maximin rule of decision), represented ...  بیشتر
Love, Compassion and Reason in The Open Society and Its Enemies
Love, Compassion and Reason in The Open Society and Its Enemies

Alain Boyer

دوره 17، شماره 42 ، خرداد 1402، ، صفحه 242-257

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.16586

چکیده
  One may say that The Open Society and Its Enemies (OS) offered in 1945 the first complete elaboration of the general approach proposed by Karl Popper, namely his ‘critical rationalism’, a bold generalization of the fallibilist falsificationism in the domain of the empirical sciences masterly proposed in Logik der Forschung (1934). The political content ...  بیشتر