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Impartiality: Impartiality is the quality of being fair and just, without being influenced by personal feelings or opinions. See also Ideal observer, Objectivity, Justice, Idealization.
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Brian Barry on Impartiality - Dictionary of Arguments

Gaus I 418
Impartiality/Barry/Weinstein: Like Rawls and Scanlon, Barry's debts to Sidgwick are palpable, stemming no doubt from his complex engagement with utilitarianism. For Barry, as for Scanlon, justice as impartiality is merely a 'device for focusing our thoughts' about justice. It simply helps us in 'thinking for ourselves in a more structured way' (1998(1): 194-5). In short, following Sidgwick, it systematizes our considered views of justice though not through the lens of utilitarian good for, with Barry, good is pluralistic. >Utilitarianism/Barry.


1. Barry, Brian (1998) 'Something in the disputation not unpleasant'. In P. Kelly, ed., Impartiality, Neutrality and Justice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 186-257.

Weinstein, David 2004. „English Political Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications


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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

EconBarry I
Brian Barry
Sociologists,economists, and democracy Chicago 1970

Gaus I
Gerald F. Gaus
Chandran Kukathas
Handbook of Political Theory London 2004


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