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Rawls on Justice

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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Utilitarianism for Rules

Rules is a book partly written for an academic audience. It sets up its puzzle in what we might call academic philosophical terms, certainly not absolutely everyday language. Rules came to feel that there was a false choice being offered: you either had to be one thing or the other when thinking about justice. The problem with utilitarianism for rules turns a bit on the difference between asking the what is justice question and the what is injustice question.

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