Sentences with phrase «maximal public world»

Far from compromising human freedom, then, the substantive goal of a maximal public world calls for maximal human self - determination.

In politics, this objection holds, a substantive end such as the maximal public world is always purchased at some cost to the self - determination of individuals.

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To the contrary, the maximal public principle asserts that the end of politics is to maximize the world that humans have in common.

Alternatively stated, maximal happiness is pursued insofar as one seeks to maximize human communication, i.e., seeks to maximize the public world.

I now wish to argue that ethical deliberation may translate this principle into what I call the maximal public principle: so act as to maximize the public world — and, by implication, in the long run.

What the maximal public principle does assert is that private happiness is ethically understood as a precondition for, or teleologically subservient to, the happiness created by the public world.