The preparation of the index was supported with a grant provided by the office of the Dean of Arts, Ryerson University. [...] Nielsen was twenty-seven years old when the Investigations appeared posthumously, and Wittgenstein’s bold “therapeutic” enterprise – his attempt to show the “fly the way out of the fly-bottle”6 – has had a lasting and profound impact xii PESS IMISM OF THE INTELLEC T, OP TIMISM OF THE WILL on Nielsen’s thinking. [...] Phi losophy xv are dominated and forced into conditions of subordination and sometimes even servitude by the workings of the capitalist system, including the domination of the rest of society by the capitalist class.19 Marxian critical theory is thus an empirical theory with an emancipatory intent.20 While it aims to provide an accurate (causal, empirical) account of things, its research program i [...] The argument in A Theory of Justice proceeds independently of specific facts about the society of the choosers behind the ‘veil of ignorance’ – indeed, they know neither the type of society they live in nor their place in history. [...] Such theorists endorse a version of what Richard Arneson calls “sufficientarianism,” a version of the doctrine that what really ought to trouble egalitarians is not inequality as such but the poor absolute condition of those at the bottom.62 As long as everybody has a decent quality of life, the comparative squalor of some states to their opulent neighbours is not by itself unjust.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Full title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Table of Contents 6
- PREFACE 8
- SOURCES 10
- INTRODUCTION: Kai Nielsen’s Political Philosophy: A Critical Introduction and Overview 12
- PART1 - METAPHILOSOPHY: CRITICAL THEORY AND WIDE-REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM 44
- 1: On Finding One’s Feet in Philosophy:From Wittgenstein to Marx 46
- 2: Metaphilosophy, Pragmatism, and a Kind of Critical Theory: Nielsen and Rorty 60
- 3: On There Being Wide Reflective Equilibria:Why It Is Important toPut It in the Plural 86
- 4: The Global Crisis of Values:The Poverty of Moral Philosophy 120
- PART II - EGALITARIANISM AND SOCIALISM 168
- 5: On the Choice betweenReform and Revolution 170
- 6: Justice and Modes of Production: Allen Wood’s “The Marxian Critique of Justice” Revisited 196
- 7: Class and Justice 212
- 8: Radical Egalitarian Justice:Justice as Equality 238
- 9: Radical Egalitarianism Revisited:On Going beyond the Difference Principle 258
- PART III - COSMOPOLITANISM, NATIONALISM,AND GLOBAL JUSTICE 308
- 10: Is Global Justice Impossible? 310
- 11: Liberal Nationalism, Liberal Democracies, and Secession 346
- 12: Cosmopolitan Nationalism 394
- 13: World Government:A Cosmopolitan Imperative? 418
- Afterword: An Interview with Kai Nielsenon Political Philosophy 446
- Selected Writings by Kai Nielsen 482
- Bibliography 490
- Index 514
- Back Cover 522
