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The theory of wide reflective equilibrium (WRE) as it was introduced by John Rawls and further elaborated by Norman Daniels in several articles (now brought together in his Justice and Justification, 1996) is a far-reaching and ambitious project. In one respect, WRE is a method for solving moral problems; in another, WRE is a state of affairs, a result that is achieved by such a method — an equilibrium — that justifies a person’s beliefs in certain moral ideas (the personal, subjective level, ‘P is justified in believing X’) or a certain ethical system or theory (the interpersonal or impersonal, objective level, ‘belief X is justified’).
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Petersson, B. (1998). Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Justification of Moral Theory. In: van der Burg, W., van Willigenburg, T. (eds) Reflective Equilibrium. Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4972-3_9
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