Although genital herpetic infections in males and females have been recorded for more than two centuries (Hutfield, 1966), their venereal mode of transmission has not been universally accepted (Diddle, Williamson, and Gardner, 1963; Yen, Reagan, and Rosenthal, 1965; Hutfield, Wasley, and Gray, 1967). Interest in genital herpetic infections has been reawakened as a result of recent findings indi...

I aim to identify and describe some basic elements of a Rawlsian approach that may help us to think conscientiously about how, from the standpoint of justice, we should treat the disabled. Rawls has been criticized for largely ignoring issues of this sort. These criticisms lose their appeal, I suggest, when we distinguish between a Rawlsian standpoint and the limited project Rawls mainly undert...

The Idea of Justice is one of those books that –whether we agree with its ultimate conclusions or not – will be virtually impossible to ignore. And for good reason: it takes on one of the great political philosophers of our time, John Rawls, and deepens, enriches and challenges some basic Rawlsian ideas. Sen’s basic argument is that the Rawlsian approach to justice, which has profoundly influen...

Herdeiro filosófico do contratualismo kantiano, filósofo analítico e comprometido com a tarefa tradicional de fornecer fundamentos, conselhos até mesmo um sistema que nos coloque na direção segura acerca das deliberações sobre o conceito justiça, John Rawls é se enquadra moldes da filosofia tradicional, produzida no meio acadêmico. Richard Rorty, por sua vez, embora, assim como Rawls, tenha con...

Whether the prices of certain orphan treatments are justified is highly controversial. One argument is that such therapies should not be funded through the public purse or private health plans because a patient with a rare disease requires more than their 'fair share' of a limited health care budget. Orphan medications can also be denied because they fare poorly in the cost-effectiveness assess...

The article deals with two arguments used by Gerald Cohen in his critique of the justice incentives that, according to most common interpretation, are admitted John Rawls’s conception – particular, difference principle. One such argument is what anticipates response basic structure objection, objection which criticism runs up against limit that Rawls himself imposes on applicability principles ...

1 I would like to thank David Levy, Erik Angner, and Ross Emmett for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. I should especially note David Levy's generosity in making available the scans of Rawls' copy of The Ethics of Competition and other essays, and for accompanying encouragement. 1 For [Rawls], as for the Marxists, positivists, and Utilitarians, moral systems are creations of hum...