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Bodies, properties, relations, events, numbers, sets and propositions are 'things' if they exist [Lowe]
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Full Idea:
Not only material bodies but also properties, relations, events, numbers, sets, and propositions are—if they are acknowledged as existing—to be accounted ‘things’.
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From:
E.J. Lowe (Things [1995])
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A reaction:
There might be lots of borderline cases here. Is the sky a thing? Is air a thing? How is transparency a thing? Is minus-one a thing? Is an incomplete proposition a thing? Etc.
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Choosers in the 'original position' have been stripped of most human characteristics [Sandel, by Tuckness/Wolf]
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Full Idea:
Sandel argues that people in the 'original position' have been stripped of everything that makes them recognisably human: their conceptions of the good, their nationality, family membership, religion, friendships and past histories.
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From:
report of Michael J. Sandel (Liberalism and the Limits of Justice [1982]) by Tuckness,A/Wolf,C - This is Political Philosophy 4 'Communitarian'
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A reaction:
This draws attention to what a pure Enlightenment rational project Rawls is pursuing, in the spirit if Kant's ethics. Choosers in the original position become identical, and thus choose a homogeneous society.
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