Hybrid Theories of Justice: A New Foundation Based on T.M. Scanlon's Ethics of Reasonable Rejection

摘要

Hybrid theories of justice accept John Rawis's requirements of equal basic liberties, fair value of political liberty, and fair equality of opportunity but replace his distributive principle, the difference principle, with a restricted principle of utility. Rawls advances several objections against these theories in A Theory of Justice and Justice as Fairness: A Briefer Restatement. Joshua Cohen also advances several objections against these theories of justice in 'Democratic Equality'. However, the force of these arguments can be reduced with a foundational shift to T. M. Scanlon's ethics of reasonable rejection. Supporters can maintain the flexibility of the hybrid theories and weaken the force of the objections made against them by shifting from a restricted principle of.