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Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls’s Theory

  • Harsanyi J
Springer Netherlands, (1980), 37-63
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-9327-9_4
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John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice 1 is an important book. It is an attempt to develop a viable alternative to utilitarianism, which up to now in its various forms was virtually the only ethical theory proposing a reasonably clear, systematic, and...

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Harsanyi, J. C. (1980). Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls’s Theory. In Essays on Ethics, Social Behavior, and Scientific Explanation (pp. 37–63). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9327-9_4

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