Knowing what justice means and being committed to it: remarks on Allen Buchanan's analysis of conservative factual beliefs
- Allen Buchanan argues that a particular set of false factual beliefs, especially when part of a comprehensive ideology, can lead persons to develop ‘morally conservative’ convictions that stand in the way of realising justice even though these persons have a ‘firm grasp of correct principles of justice and a robust commitment to their realisation’. In my remarks, I raise some questions concerning the core argument: How ‘firm’ can a grasp of principles of justice be if a person is blind to the realities of injustice? And how ‘sincerely committed’ to justice can such an injustice-insensitive person be? Alternatively: How firm is that grasp or commitment if one has a radically pessimistic view about human nature so that one does not believe that (egalitarian) justice can or could ever be realised? Secondly, I ask: If such ideologies or false beliefs are in play in reproducing injustice, do they not also ‘mask’ existing injustices?
Author: | Rainer ForstGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-639183 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12540 |
ISSN: | 1468-5930 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of applied philosophy |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publication: | Oxford |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/12/22 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/12/22 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/04/05 |
Volume: | 38 |
Issue: | 5 |
Page Number: | 5 |
First Page: | 742 |
Last Page: | 746 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 494706228 |
Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |