Vol. 16 No. 1 (1996)
Articles

¿Es el "trilema de Fishkin" un verdadeo trilema?

Eduardo Rivera López
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Published 1996-05-01

How to Cite

Rivera López, E. (1996). ¿Es el "trilema de Fishkin" un verdadeo trilema?. Análisis Filosófico, 16(1), 27–41. Retrieved from https://analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af/article/view/639

Abstract

Fishkin claims that the three liberals principles concerning assignment of social positions (family autonomy, merit and equal life chances) constitute a "trilemma": the realization of any two of these principies precludes the realization of the third. In this paper, I try to prove that this is the case, only if these principies are interpreted in an extreme way. Liberalism, however, has strong reasons to reject such interpretation of each of these principies. Moreover, these reasons are independent from the question of whether their conjunction may be conflictive or not. If we assume moderate versions of the principies (as I claim liberalism would), the trilemma disappears or, at least, becomes much weaker.