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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that All liberal political conceptions of justice will share certain basic features.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Libertarian liberals like Nozick ground justice solely in self-ownership and historical entitlement, rejecting 'fairness' as a distributive criterion.
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    • 2.If a recognizable liberal theory can exclude fairness as foundational, then fairness is not a shared feature of all liberal conceptions of justice.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Isaiah Berlin's value pluralism entails that liberty, equality, and fairness are genuinely incommensurable and cannot be jointly interpreted by any single framework.
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    • 2.Liberal conceptions built on incompatible rankings of these values will diverge in basic structure, not merely in application.
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    Reasons Against

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    • All members of the family of liberal political conceptions of justice interpret the same three fundamental ideas ('free,' 'equal,' and 'fair').
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