Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied Philosophy

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I N D E X abortion, 106–7 abstraction in philosophy of Rawls, vii Adams, Robert, 110, 112–13, 121 advertisements of jobs and educational opportunities , 79, 85 affirmative action admissions/hires R. Allen on, 84–85 argument against, 73–80 distributive justice and, 85–89 examples of, 66–67 Freeman on, 87 implications of argument against, 80–85 legacy admissions/hires compared to, 72–73 Rawls and, 67, 68–69, 84 Taylor on, 68–72 types of, 69 views of, 68 agapic love, 99, 100 Allen, Anita, 68, 84 Allen, Robert, 84–85 anesthesia compared to nonviolent resistance , 32, 33 animal bodies of humans, 46–47 animal emotions, 55–57 animal entitlements capabilities approach and, 44, 58–64 reflective equilibrium and, 64–65 rights-based view of, 45–46 social contract theory and, 48–54 utilitarianism and, 42–44, 53–54 anthropocentrism imago Dei hypothesis and, 119 rational, 54 respect for nature and, 60 traditional, 53, 64 appeasement compared to nonviolent resistance , 34 applied philosophy, viii Aquinas, Thomas, 46, 60, 96, 106, 114 Aristotle, 17, 91 Aron, Raymond, 29 ‘‘Aryan’’ spouses of Jewish husbands, 36–37, 38 Augustine, 106, 113, 114 autonomy moral compared to political, 101–2 in religion, 112 Bakke, Allan, 81–82 Baltzell, E. Digby, 82 Barth, Karl, 113 basic liberties equal opportunity and, 76–77, 80 principles of justice and, 74–76 Rawls view of, 88 benevolence and justice, 98–100 Bentham, Jeremy, 42–43 Bernardin, Joseph, 107 Bodin, Jean, 124 Boston University, 111 Bowne, Borden Parker, 111 Brightman, Edgar, 111 Brunner, Emil, 112, 114 Buber, Martin, 114 Burke, Edmund, 76 Bush, George W., 66 capabilities approach, 42, 44, 58–64 Carcieri, Martin, 86 careers open to talents, 69, 77 Carl, Maria, 89 Catholic Church natural reason and, 95 in Nazi Germany, 37, 39 political liberalism and, 108 preferential option for poor, 118 schools of, 104–5 140 index Chamberlain, Neville, 34 changeless, view of God as, 113–14 Christianity. See also Catholic Church abandonment of, 121–22 influence of Greek philosophy on, 112–13 intolerance and violence in, 108 Marx on, 47 opposition to realism in, 21 pacifism and, 31 Churchill, Winston, 34 civil disobedience, 35 civilians, killing of in war, 23–27 civility, duty of, 103–4, 108, 109 Clausewitz, Carl von, 21 Cobb, John, 105 Cohen, Joshua, 110, 121 coherence theory of morality, 4–5 communitarianism, 102–3 compassion regarding animals, 46 comprehensive doctrines defense of animal entitlements in, 53 original positions and, 32 plans of life in, 91–92 pluralism and, 107 in political life, 118–19 reflective equilibrium, principles of justice , and, 16 religion compared to, 101, 103 conceptual reversal, 31 confessional states, 30 congruence between conceptions of good and conceptions of justice, 102–3, 105 consequentialism as feature of utilitarianism , 43 constructive model of coherence theory of morality, 4–5 conversion experience of Paul, 116, 121 Daniels, Norman, 15 decisions dominant end theorists and, 93 indeterminacy and, 92 regarding justice, 97–98 deliberative or revisionary stance regarding animals, 65 deliberative rationality, 92–93, 96 democracy and resort to violence, 39–40 deontological theory and equal liberty, 74 DePaul, Michael, 11 descriptive or conservative stance regarding animals, 65 Dewey, John, 93 difference principle animal entitlements and, 54 defense of, 118 equality of opportunity principle and, 76– 77, 79 distributive justice and affirmative action or legacy admissions/hires, 79, 85–89 divine command theory, 124 dominant ends inconclusive ends compared to, 91–93 Rawls and, 90 types of, 94–97 Dorrien, Gary, 110–11 double effect, principle of, 23–24 Doyle, Michael, 22 Dreben, Burton, 16, 17 Dworkin, Ronald, 3–7, 9, 120 Ebertz, Roger, 18 educational opportunities, advertisements of, 79, 85 efficiency, priority of justice over, 73–74 egoism, opposition to, 116 emotions, animal, 55–57 equality of opportunity. See fair equality of opportunity equal liberty and teleological theory, 74, 82 ethics and religion, 115 euthanasia in Nazi Germany, 37–38 evangelical liberalism, 111 evolution and religious belief, 105–6 extreme crisis, direct killing of civilians in conditions of, 25 fair equality of opportunity affirmative action and, 69 amphibious character of, 80, 83 difference principle and, 76–77, 79 formal and material, 69–70, 77–80 meritocracy compared to, 71–72 fetus, metaphysical status of, 106–7 Flowers for Algernon (Keyes), 52 formal equality of opportunity, 69–70, 77–80 Freeman, Samuel affirmative action and, 87 animal suffering and, 53–54 civilian deaths in war and, 26–27 continuity of writings...