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View article: Women and Lockean Theory
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Liberal political thought affirms the moral equality of all persons. The Lockean tradition within liberalism captures this equality by endowing people with equal natural rights. However, a powerful line of criticism holds that the theory f…
View article: SOY volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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View article: SOY volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
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View article: CONSENT TO UNJUST INSTITUTIONS
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John Rawls wrote that people can voluntarily acquire political obligations to institutions only on the condition that those institutions are at least reasonably just. When an institution is seriously unjust, by contrast, attempts to create…
View article: SOY volume 38 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
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View article: Political Philosophy as Love of Wisdom
Political Philosophy as Love of Wisdom Open
The traditional view holds that political philosophy should aim at the truth. By contrast, Avner de Shalit argues that political philosophers should do something different. According to him, they should work in direct consultation with “th…
View article: The Ethics of Immigration and Economic Recovery
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Executive Summary While restricting the movement of people to limit the spread of a pandemic may be justified in the short run, long-term restrictions on immigration will only make economic recovery more difficult. The author suggests that…
View article: SOY volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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View article: UNCERTAIN RIGHTS AGAINST DEFENSE
UNCERTAIN RIGHTS AGAINST DEFENSE Open
In this essay, I defend a theory of liability to defensive force. The theory contains two elements. The first is a dual Lockean-inspired condition. The second aims to make this first condition consistent with problems arising from uncertai…
View article: Diversity of depoliticization?
Diversity of depoliticization? Open
An ideologically homogeneous discipline of political psychology is a serious problem. But undoing the field's homogeneity may not suffice to address this problem. Instead, we should consider undoing the politicization.