Rawls begins A Theory of Justice by examining the concept of justice as fairness, the social contract, and the classical utilitarian and intuitionist views of justice. |
I'm currently reading and enjoying Whitehead's The Intuitionist and looking forward to soon finding his collection of essays about New York City in my mailbox. |
In the Introduction and Chapter 1, Kaspar provides a quick overview of the intuitionist approach. |
He was an intuitionist who stressed the essential role of human intuition in the foundations of mathematics. |
He is an epistemological realist, an ethical intuitionist, and a political libertarian, too extreme for my tastes but always provocative. |
Intuitionist philosophers such as Robert Nozick and David Schmidtz offer many contributions to the moral defense of capitalism. |