The article analyses the public health policy brief From Disparity to Potential by Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). It argues that WRR presents a distinctive and novel brand of proportionate universalism, theory proposed Sir Michael Marmot (2010). situates in wider debate on universalism offers an evaluation from ethical perspective. WRR’s version exhibits three flaws: (1) ...

Abstract The paper presents different arguments against the necessity of mereological universalism. First, it argues that they are examples a much more general argumentative structure. It then contends some these cannot be resisted by distinguishing variants universalism have been recently proposed in literature—in contrast with recent suggestions to contrary. Finally, provides ways resist such...

This article examines how ordinary victims of racism rebut racist beliefs communicated to them by the mass media and encountered in daily life. We describe the rhetorical devices that North African immigrant men in France use to respond to French racism, drawing on thirty in-depth interviews conducted with randomly selected blue-collar immigrants residing in the Paris suburbs. We argue that whi...

this article examines capacity of rational dialogues to achieve ethical universalism. in positive attitude, rational ability considered as most important reason for possibility of achievement to common social-political norms and rights. rational dialogue, by creating a suitable space for dialogue beyond the private interests and involvement of state power; searches consensus on foundation of so...

Abstract In this article, we take into consideration two semantics of the future tense: linearism, according to which future-tense sentences are interpreted on a single history, and universalism, they evaluated by universally quantifying plurality histories that radiate from present instant. Specifically, focus objection advanced against universalism: if universalism were correct will , negated...