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R. B. Brandt The science of man and wide reflective equilibrium article The aim is to identify some problems and puzzles in Rawls’s conception of reflective equilibrium, to consider what he thinks reflective equilibrium shows, and to compare his result with asking the question what sort of moral system we should want for our society if we were fully rational and expected to live a lifetime in it.

The science of man and wide reflective equilibrium

R. B. Brandt

Ethics, vol. 100, no. 2, 1990, pp. 259–278

Abstract

The aim is to identify some problems and puzzles in Rawls’s conception of reflective equilibrium, to consider what he thinks reflective equilibrium shows, and to compare his result with asking the question what sort of moral system we should want for our society if we were fully rational and expected to live a lifetime in it.

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