Justification, Legitimacy, and Social Embeddedness: Locke and Rawls on Society and the State

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 217-231

  Cushing, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

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EID: 1642421023     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025318432677     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), p. 4.
2. See A. John Simmons, "Justification and Legitimacy," Ethics 106 (1999).
3. Ibid., p. 759.
4. I b i d.
5. Ibid., p. 739.
6. Ibid., p. 763.
7. Cynthia Stark, "Hypothetical Consent and Justification," Journal of Philosophy 97 (2000).
8. Simmons 1999, 746n.
9. Stark op. cit., p. 329.
10. John Rawls, Political Liberalism, paperback edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. xviii-xxii.
11. Simmons, "Justification and Legitimacy," p. 759.
12. Stark op. cit., pp. 325-326.
13. Ibid., p. 326.
14. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), ch. VI.
15. Rawls, Political Liberalism, pp. xlv-xlvii.
16. I b i d.
17. I b i d.
18. See Simon Cushing, "Rawls and 'Duty-Based' Accounts of Political Obligation," APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 99 (1999).
19. See John Locke, in C.B. Macpherson ed., Second Treatise of Government (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1980).
20. See Locke, op. cit., §4.
21. See Locke, op. cit., §6.
22. See Locke, op. cit., §95, §171.
23. See Locke, op. cit., §99.
24. See A. John Simmons, A Lockean Theory of Rights (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992) and On the Edge of Anarchy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993).
25. See A. John Simmons, A Lockean Theory of Rights (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992) and On the Edge of Anarchy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993).
26. Rawls, Political Liberalism, p. 276.
27. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, p. 13. See also Political Liberalism, p. 41.
28. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, p. 13. See also Political Liberalism, p. 41.
29. See Locke, op. cit., §103.
30. Simmons, "Justification and Legitimacy," p. 750.
31. Rawls, Political Liberalism, pp. 12, 40-41.
32. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, p. 13.
33. Simmons, "Justification and Legitimacy," p. 761.
34. Rawls, Political Liberalism, p. 277.
35. Simmons, "Justification and Legitimacy," p. 742.
36. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, pp. 18, 136-137, and Political Liberalism, p. 304, 24n.
37. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, pp. 18, 136-137, and Political Liberalism, p. 304, 24n.
38. Rawls, Political Liberalism, 136n.
39. Rawls, Political Liberalism, pp. 13-14.
40. Rawls, Political Liberalism, p. 41. See also Samuel Freeman, "Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views," Philosophy and Public Affairs 19 (1990), p. 155.
41. Rawls, Political Liberalism, p. 41. See also Samuel Freeman, "Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views," Philosophy and Public Affairs 19 (1990), p. 155.
42. John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), 39n.
43. See Simmons, On the Edge of Anarchy, ch. 3.
44. See Cushing, "Rawls and 'Duty-Based'Accounts," p. 70.
45. See Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1983), Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983), Leah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
46. See Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1983), Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983), Leah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
47. See Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1983), Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983), Leah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
48. See Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1983), Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983), Leah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
49. Work on this paper was supported by a Horace H. Rackham Research Fellowship from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I would like to thank Jami Anderson, Harry Brighouse, Roger Crisp, an anonymous reader, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry for helpful comments on previous drafts.