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List of contents
1. The Equal Power Perspective. 2. Freedom and False Consciousness. 3. Indigenous Rights. 4. The Scope of Impartialism. 5. The Enabling Liberties. 6. The Distribution of Liberty. 7. The Distribution of Opportunities. 8. Impartialist Epistemology and Religious Truth. 9. Impartialist Education. 10. Liberal Tolerance and the Laws of Nations. 11. Impartialism and Nonpersons. 12. Impartialism and Autonomy. 13. Impartialism and Personal Identity. 14. Egoism and Rationality. 15. Reflective Equilibrium and Moral Logic. 16. Public Reason-Giving.
About the author
Peter G. Woolcock
Summary
This book proposes unforced agreement as the criterion of moral rightness and develops the conditions for such agreement in a ’veil-less’ objectivist liberal democratic contractarian normative theory and metaethics.
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’An extremely accurate interpretation of my position - perhaps the best I have seen so far... . (He has) grasped the central doctrine which I wish to put forward more accurately, and expounded it better, than anyone else who has dealt with it in the considerable literature which this essay has stirred up. It is wonderful to find people who, after all these years, understand not only oneself, but the fallacies of one's critics.’ the late Sir Isaiah Berlin, Oxford University, author of Two Concepts of Liberty ’[Woolcock] sets himself a clearly worthwhile task and achieves his objective in a way that shows originality and a fine ability for critical thinking... His work is clearly structured and throughout a work of argument. Reading it has improved my understanding of the hypothetical contractarian approach to modern philosophy.’ Dr Harry Beran, University of Wollongong, author of The Consent Theory of Political Obligation ’...one of the most valuable contributions to the field. As we have philosophy of law and philosophy of education, there is no reason why there should not be a philosophy of arbitration in which Peter Woolcock’s would have been a pioneering work.’ ”the late Professor Julius Kovesi, University of Western Australia, author of Moral Notions
