Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
1 Nation and universe......Page 19
2 Thin universalism: moral authority and contemporary political theory......Page 51
3 Thin universalism as weak foundationalism......Page 69
4 Thin universalism and the ‘limits’ of justification......Page 85
5 How do principles work?......Page 106
6 Why thin universalism needs conceptions of society and person......Page 120
7 Proceduralism as thin universalism: Stuart Hampshire’s ‘procedural justice’......Page 137
8 Gender equality and cultural justice: how thin is Nussbaum’s universalism?......Page 156
9 Thin universalism and cultural identity: The case of welsh nationalism......Page 169
10 Thin universalism and distributive justice......Page 185
11 Rawls on human rights: liberal or universal?......Page 201
Index......Page 222