PHL281H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Fact, Procedural Justice, Welfare Rights
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It is possible to use the same methods we use in addressing the bioethics of everyday life to answer policy questions. These are philosophically-informed re ections and are in ected by a careful reading of the greats (e. g. aristotle, kant, etc. ) However, when it comes to the bioethics of everyday life we disagree. When we think about justice, and how we are going to live together, however, we need to set rules that we can all understand as legitimate. We live with the fact of reasonable pluralism (rawls): this is more than a sociological fact, nor it is just simply pluralism, this is a historical achievement, e. g. with the wars of religion. Rawls suggests that we take the suggestion of tolerance (i. e. tolerance as an agreement to live and let live. ) and bring it into the political order. There are, of course, limits to tolerance (i. e. some religious practices are not reasonable).
