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5for instance, Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa, Decision with Muluple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1976, pp. 219-353.
6Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously, Cambridge, Massa chusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977, p. 153.
7Michael J. Sandel, "Justice and the Good", in Liberalism and Its Critics. ed. Michael J. Sandel, New York, NY: New York University Press, 1984, pp. 159-176.
8Joel Feinborg, Social Philosophy, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973, p. 93.
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10C. L. Sheng, "Utilitarianism Is Not Indifferent to Distritiution", in Rights, Justice, and Community, ed. Creighton Peden and John Roth, Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 363-377.
