tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559365079947230138.post5402364745774243851..comments2023-10-16T09:53:19.335+01:00Comments on Non-Liquet: The Awesome and Dangerous Ethical Rationalism of Olsen and ToddingtonThe Westminster International Law and Theory Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03565035015258811530noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559365079947230138.post-13748853943436148142008-05-20T17:13:00.000+01:002008-05-20T17:13:00.000+01:00I have eagerly followed the discussion provoked by...I have eagerly followed the discussion provoked by joetanega’s blog ’Egalitiarianism Riposte’. I became aware of the issue through reading the (fully downloadable) intro of Toddington’s book ‘Arhitectures of Justice’ written in co-autorship with Henrik Olsen. Here I just would like to add some brief remarks.<BR/>First, the gewirthian thesis that there is an objective and universal basis for moralGergely Delihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01601559169690796827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559365079947230138.post-11509144961320608362008-05-01T20:08:00.000+01:002008-05-01T20:08:00.000+01:00I would like to thank Stuart Toddington for his he...I would like to thank Stuart Toddington for his helpful clarification of his definition of egalitarianism. And my apologies for mis-hearing what I thought was an unintentional apology for totalitarian rationalism. It appears that Toddington's concept of "egalitarianism" is not a static concept but a process that on the one hand, recognizes "vast differences of attribtues and capacities between joetanegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13838494027237436557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559365079947230138.post-21296593750745543192008-05-01T19:34:00.000+01:002008-05-01T19:34:00.000+01:00Is the concept of fundamental human rights egalita...Is the concept of fundamental human rights egalitarian? I would hope so. And I don't think it necessarily has anything to do with probability per se. How one uses rights and how one is used by rights may well be the effect of statistical moments in society at large. Much of our lives, however, is quite predictable. Maybe religion is a way of introducing more randomness than we get. A more subtle John Floodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03618951794976509582noreply@blogger.com