Lavastida, José I. Health Care and the Common Good: A Catholic Theory of Justice

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 634-636
Author(s):  
Bernard Mulcahy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

Values and Canadian Health Care: an Alberta Exploration

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Wilson ◽  
Doris M. Kieser
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Common Good ◽  
System Reform ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Canadian Health Care System ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care ◽  
The Common ◽  
Care System

In March 1994, a health care conference was held in Edmonton, Alberta, at which the values of conference participants towards health care were systematically recorded and analysed. This exploration is significant because the values that underpin the structure of the current publicly-funded and administered Canadian health care system rarely enter current discussions regarding health care system reform. Rather, economic and other sociopolitical forces now seem to be having a major impact on plans and actual changes within the health care system. Thus, the underlying attitudes and beliefs of Canadians towards health care have not been articulated or given due credence. The conference par ticipants identified three dominant values: (1) the dignity of the human person as an indi vidual and social being; (2) respect for pluralism and difference; and (3) accountability These values were found to be robust, in that they sustain a focus on the 'common good'. The common good is the core of the Canadian health care system, and is enshrined in the 1984 Canada Health Act. Conceptually, these values could also lead to significant changes in health care, in keeping with the common good, particularly those changes focusing on the current deficiencies of the Canadian health care system.

Health-Care Reform and the Common Good

2009 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace-Marie Turner
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals JUSTICE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF KNOWLEDGE

Episteme ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-146
Author(s):  
Faik Kurtulmus ◽  
Gürol Irzik
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Fundamental Interest ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
Influential Theory ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTIn this article we develop an account of justice in the distribution of knowledge. We first argue that knowledge is a fundamental interest that grounds claims of justice due to its role in individuals’ deliberations about the common good, their personal good and the pursuit thereof. Second, we identify the epistemic basic structure of a society, namely, the institutions that determine individuals’ opportunities for acquiring knowledge and discuss what justice requires of them. Our main contention is that a systematic lack of opportunity to acquire knowledge one needs as an individual and a citizen because of the way the epistemic basic structure of a society is organized is an injustice. Finally, we discuss how our account relates to John Rawls's influential theory of justice.

Schopenhauer on Law and Justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 310-327
Author(s):  
Raymond B. Marcin
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The World ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Common ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
Theory Of Law

This chapter explores Schopenhauer’s jurisprudence in the context of his writings on law and justice. Consistent with the will-and-representation dualism in the grounding of his overall approach to philosophy, Schopenhauer’s analyses of law and justice are quite separate from each other and decidedly dualist. Schopenhauer sees law as operating at the level of the world as representation; it simply regulates behavior for the common good. Consequently, his theory of law fits nicely within the philosophy of pragmatism that has lately become influential in some contemporary schools of jurisprudence. Schopenhauer sees justice as operating at the level of the world as will, the deep-down level of true reality that is all but foreclosed to our perceptions. In exploring the concept of justice, Schopenhauer sees what he refers to as “eternal justice” as being at the heart of the Problem of Evil that has beset philosophers and theologians for centuries. But he sees the virtue of justice, built on understandings of human solidarity that flow from the deep-down level of true reality, as the cure. His theory of justice thereby fits nicely within the idealist and communitarian philosophies that have lately become influential in some contemporary schools of jurisprudence.

Finding Common Ground for the Common Good: Compromise in Health Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 926-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Cleary ◽  
Sancia West ◽  
Farida Saghafi ◽  
David Lees ◽  
Rachel Kornhaber
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Good Compromise ◽  
The Common
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