Essays about: "Norman Daniels"

Found 3 essays containing the words Norman Daniels.

  1. 1. Rawls’s distributional justice in Swedish healthcare

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Johan Sturesson; [2022]
    Keywords : Rawls theory of justice; veil of ignorance; Norman Daniels; Swedish Health Care and Medical Priorities Commission; distributional justice; Sweden; healthcare;

    Abstract : Everyone will probably be given healthcare at some point in life, and might ask themselves how and why the healthcare is distributed the way it is in Swedish society. I also believe this is a matter where one would like the distribution of healthcare to be just. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Complementary Developmental View on Morally Arbitrary Contingencies in Rawls’s Theory of Justice

    University essay from Institutionen för religion och kultur

    Author : Olesya Vallin; [2007]
    Keywords : Rawls; natural lottery; morally arbitrary contingencies; global justice; egalitarian theory; moral philosophy; Dworkin; Kohlberg;

    Abstract : The paper explores theoretical shortcomings in the egalitarian theory by John Rawls and provides a complementary view on the problem of morally arbitrary contingencies. The conception of natural lottery, which Rawls presents to signify the starting range of morally arbitrary inequalities, falls short in philosophical grounding. READ MORE

  4. 3. Foregrounding Background Theories in Wide Reflective Equilibrium

    University essay from Institutionen för religion och kultur

    Author : Olle Blomberg; [2007]
    Keywords : Eeflektivt ekvilibrium; background theories; Norman Daniels; coherence coheentism; moral justification; reflektivt ekvilibrium; bakgrundsteorier; Norman Daniels; koherens; koherentism; moraliskt rättfärdigande;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with two species of a very well known and popular method of moral justification called the method of reflective equilibrium. These two species are narrow and wide reflective equilibrium (NRE/WRE). More specifically, the thesis looks at the roles so called background theories are expected to play in WRE. READ MORE