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Allen Buchanan

Durham
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The Ethics of Combatting Pernicious Ideological Beliefs

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By Allen Buchanan
| Wiley Online Library Verified
References . Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020. , and . Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making, 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. , and . “Theories of Ideology: Origins, Development, and Prospects.” Social Philosophy and Policy 41, no. 1 (2024): 13–43. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026505252400030X. “Knowing and Not-Knowing for Your Own Good: The Limits of Epistemic Paternalism.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 35, no.
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The Fundamental Wrong of Colonialism

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By Ritwik Agrawal, Allen Buchanan
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Disclosure The authors whose names are listed here certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or nonfinancial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. References 1, “The Taking of Territory and the Wrongs of Colonialism,” Journal of Political Philosophy 27, no. 1 (2019): 87–106.
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Ideology and Revolution

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By Allen Buchanan
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
In our society there is a constant struggle between powerful, institutionalized hierarchies and people who try to resist them. Whether this resistance succeeds (either partially or completely) or fails, the struggle causes large-scale social change, including changes in morality and institutions and in how hierarchy and the struggle itself are conceived.
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Cynthia A. Stark, How to Include the Severely Disabled in a Contractarian Theory of Justice - PhilPapers

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By Cynthia Stark, John Rawls, Allen Buchanan, Thomas M. Scanlon
| philpapers.org
This paper argues that, with modification, Rawls's social contract theory can produce principles of distributive justice applying to the severely disabled. It is a response to critics who claim that Rawls's assumption that the parties in the original position represent fully cooperating citizens excludes the disabled from the social contract. I propose that this idealizing assumption should be dropped at the constitutional stage of the contract where the parties decide on a social minimum.
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