The cases, which the court, the New York State Court of Appeals, is considering jointly, concern relatively narrow executive and administrative orders in recent years that extended benefits like health insurance to same-sex spouses of government employees who married in jurisdictions where such marriages are legal, and, in one county, required local officials to treat same-sex couples as married.
What one gets is a dialogical principle of universalization (U): "A [moral norm] is valid just in case the foreseeable consequences and side-effects of its general observance for the interests and value-orientations of each individual could be jointly accepted by all concerned without coercion" (i.e., in a sufficiently reasonable discourse) (1998a, 42; trans. amended).
Habermas thus proposes a dialogical principle of universalization, (U), stating that a moral norm "is valid just in case the foreseeable consequences and side-effects of its general observance for the interests and value-orientations of each individual could be jointly accepted by all concerned without coercion" (Habermas 1998, 42).
For Habermas, this principle follows from the presuppositions of rational moral discourse, and so at least on one interpretation to engage in reasoned moral or political argument with others is to commit oneself to something like the idea of public reason to commit oneself to finding norms that could be jointly accepted by all concerned without coercion.
Last year, he denied claims from former Commons clerk Malcolm Jack that the Lords had refused to buy champagne jointly over concerns it wouldn't meet Lords standards.
The Stern Business School and the economics department jointly expressed concerns that its cost would crush the university, forcing tuition increases and lower teacher-student ratios.
This is different in SHU where the decisions are taken jointly by the scheme members and by the hospital concerned.
These patients might have been concerned about the possibility of negative interactions between jointly administered TB and HIV drugs.
In this scenario analysis, policymakers of organizations concerned with residence for people with mental health problems in Eindhoven, jointly outlined four scenarios that provide guidelines for actions to optimize the provision of residences (step 3).
She has been concerned with animals ever since she and Henry Bergh, the founder of ASPCA jointly supersised the merciful destruction of a dog some boys had thoughtlessly dipped in green paint.
