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    Gauthier's Lockean Proviso fails to fully resolve the imp... — Carmelics
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    Gauthier's Lockean Proviso fails to fully resolve the impartiality problem for contractarianism.

    Justice & PunishmentSocial Contract
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    • 1.The Lockean Proviso was designed to rule out taking historical patterns of dominance into account.
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    • 2.Even if all dominance relations were eliminated and bargaining were conditioned on undominated assets, inequality in natural talents and abilities would reintroduce the possibility of dominance.
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    On contractarianism, it is irrational to treat truly powerless persons...78%The normativity objection against contractarianism overlooks a signifi...77%Under contractualism, a principle is impermissible if any individual h...76%Any impersonal reformulation of contractualism is much more demanding ...76%

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    According to the impartiality objection, all human persons are owed certain duties regardless of their powers or abilities, and because it relies on an instrumental and subjective conception of practical reason, contractarianism cannot explain how this would be so. Contractarianism, on the contrary, holds it to be irrational to treat truly powerless persons equally, since it is not mutually advantageous to do so. This problem, which is similar to the exclusion problem discussed above and in sect
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