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  • Rejecting robust patriotism does not entail adopting sweeping impartialism that acknowledges no special obligations, and allows no partiality, to “our own.”

    Patriotism Primoratz, Igor 2009

  • They are sympathetic towards both faiths, and strive for impartialism.

    Think Progress » Obama Smeared As Former ‘Madrassa’ Student, Possible Covert Muslim Extremist 2007

  • Liberal impartialism, then, must turn out to be a framework that can be agreed to by all relevant parties, even as they continue to disagree regarding particular substantive moral issues.

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • In particular, there is good reason to be wary of objections to impartialism which claim that all impartialists endorse extreme moral demands, or that they require that practical reasoning be completely expunged of every vestige of the partial.

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • While both Nagel and Rawls explicitly reject the idea that liberal impartialism is to be justified on the basis of skepticism toward various conceptions of the good, Barry (1995) explicitly endorses this form of justification.

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • The problem of neutrality is a pressing one for liberals: given the importance to their view of the thought that an impartial government must be neutral between various moral conceptions (it must, that is, respect what Rawls calls ˜the fact of pluralism™), it is essential to show that liberal impartialism does not simply represent another such moral conception (or ˜sectarian view™) in its own right.

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • But Moore was prevented from giving this account by other features of his view: his general emphasis on contemplative forms of love, his restricted list of initial intrinsic goods, and his strict impartialism about value.

    Moore's Moral Philosophy Hurka, Thomas 2005

  • Principia Ethica also took the impartialism of its view to be analytic, and in particular claimed that egoism, which says that each person should pursue only his own good, is self-contradictory.

    Moore's Moral Philosophy Hurka, Thomas 2005

  • ˜partialism™ nor ˜impartialism™ unambiguously denote any single moral position; at best, they designate two poles of a continuum, one of which attributes no moral significance to the demands of (any sort of) impartiality, the other of which sees morality as exhausted by (some version of) impartiality.

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • According to Rawls, to endorse a view of justice is not to claim that it is true; moreover, the acceptability of liberal impartialism is not to be derived from its truth; rather, such a view will be accepted (it is to be hoped) because, in societies of the relevant sort, it will form a common element (an

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

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