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Values for Foxes? A Comment on Kyle Johannsen’s A Conceptual Investigation of Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2020

COLIN M. MACLEOD
COLIN M. MACLEOD*
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University of Victoria
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Abstract

This paper provides a critical rejoinder to some themes in Kyle Johannsen’s A Conceptual Investigation of Justice. The discussion focuses on Johannsen’s analysis of fundamental value pluralism and identifies a number of challenges to the form of value pluralism defended by Johannsen. I suggest that Johannsen’s analysis fails to explain how conflicts between fundamental values can be resolved, and that there is greater harmony between fundamental values than Johannsen recognizes.

Cet article propose une réponse critique à quelques thèmes du livre de Kyle Johannsen, A Conceptual Investigation of Justice. La discussion se penche sur l’analyse du pluralisme fondamental de la valeur proposée par Johannsen et met en cause cette même analyse. Je soutiens que l’analyse proposée par Johannsen ne parvient pas à expliquer comment des conflits entre des valeurs fondamentales peuvent être résolus et qu’il y a davantage de convergence entre des valeurs fondamentales que ne le reconnaît Johannsen.

Keywords

justicevalue pluralismluck egalitarianismJohn RawlsG.A. Cohen
Type
Book Symposium: Kyle Johannsen’s A Conceptual Investigation of Justice
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 729 - 739
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 2020 

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Footnotes

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Kyle Johannsen. 2018. A Conceptual Investigation of Justice. (New York, NY: Routledge). Page numbers unless otherwise attributed are from this book.

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