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Gambling against Rawls
In A Theory of Justice (1971) John Rawls attempted to solve the problem of distributive justice by combining self-interest, ignorance and risk-aversion. He argued that if self-interested persons in a situation of uncertainty imposed by a veil of ignorance were choosing principles for the basic …
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Rawls, Liberalism, and Leisure
… settle for less than the ideal of each. Since Rawls? theory of justice is a liberal one, it suffers from this tension as well. However Rawls? theory has also been accused of forcing some members of society to subsidizing the choices of others. I shall argue that one of the more recent attempts …
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues
<p>The argument of this dissertation is that John Rawls, although primarily concerned with social and political justice, and not with virtue ethics, gives a major place and role to the moral virtues in his theory of political liberalism, as in all of his system of justice as fairness. Some …
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John Rawls ir Chantal Mouffe demokratijos projektų palyginimas /
… the main liberal theorists of XX century, John Rawls, has suggested seeking social unity by raising an idea of an overlapping consensus not on moral principles, but on political ones. Providing fair equal circumstances for initial position, Rawls ensured that rational participants of initial …
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Civic friendship and a value assumption in Rawls.
In the late twentieth century, John Rawls reinvigorated the social contract theory in political philosophy. Previous contract theories could not explain how those bound by the social contract consent to be bound. Rawls argues that we consent to the contract hypothetically. If we would agree, under …
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A Platonic Critique of John Rawls' Theory of Justice
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Master Plan for the Jerry S. Rawls Championship Golf Course
… new 18-hole golf course, the Jerry S. Rawls Championship Golf Course at Texas Tech. The findings confirmed the potential to successfully integrate the use and function of a golf clubhouse with a university hotel and conference center on the same site by developing a complex network and …
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Kongzi, Rawls, and the sense of justice in the Analects.
… is a comparative study of the philosophy of John Rawls and the Confucian Analects regarding the idea of a sense of justice. The first aim of this work is to correct a view that has been advanced by several scholars of Chinese and comparative philosophy, namely, that the absence of terms such as …
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HAYEK AND RAWLS : THE LIMIT OF STATE INTERVENTION IN THE ECONOMY
… thesis aims to compare the views of Hayek and Rawls on the question of the limit of proper state intervention in the economy. Their views are often thought to be totally different and hence incompatible. In comparing and contrasting their views, it is found that while it is true that Hayek and …
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The relation between Rawls' two principles of justice : a critical examination
John Rawls' principal aim in A Theory of Justice is to explicate a moral theory, justice as fairness, based on an interpretation of the social contract, which offers a substantial alternative to utilitarian thought in general. Rawls concentrates on justice because, in his opinion, it is the most …
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Social justice after Kant: Between constructivism and deconstruction (Rawls, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida)
… the constructive and reconstructive projects of Rawls and Habermas on the one hand, and the deconstructive projects of Levinas and Derrida on the other. First, I identify the central difference between the two projects, reconstructing each account of justice as it develops in relation to Kant s …
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Guidelines for a Pluralist Society: Could Rawls Help with Struggles Over Identity
… at least one thing in common: critiques of John Rawls. However, Rawls seems to have a palatable answer to “the great liberal struggle,” though it seems he would frame it differently. Indeed, he acknowledges “the fact of pluralism,” as a permanent condition of our experience. In Part One I respond …
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Guidelines for a Pluralist Society: Could Rawls Help with Struggles Over Identity
… at least one thing in common: critiques of John Rawls. However, Rawls seems to have a palatable answer to “the great liberal struggle,” though it seems he would frame it differently. Indeed, he acknowledges “the fact of pluralism,” as a permanent condition of our experience. In Part One I respond …
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Facing inequality : Rawls, Sen and Cohen on the space of egalitarian justice
… in which egalitarians work. Beginning with John Rawls' theory of political justice (i.e., justice as fairness), the thesis examines critiques of Rawls' scheme of primary goods by Amartya Sen and G.A. Cohen and their respective egalitarian evaluative spaces--capabilities and midfare. It is …
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John Rawls and the Supreme Court : a study in continuity and change.
In his influential book A Theory of Justice, John Rawls indicates his approval of an independent judiciary and judicial review for stabilizing a just regime. His later works, particularly Political Liberalism, place increased emphasis upon the Court for bringing about and securing his …
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Liberalism and community: Communitarian criticisms of John Rawls' liberal theory of justice
… advanced against the liberal theory of John Rawls by Michael Sandel and Alasdair MacIntyre.
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The person and society Rawls, Maritain, and the concept of personhood in politics
John Rawls, a titanic figure in political philosophy in the 20th century, thought he could make politics independent of metaphysics, that he could work up a neutral, coherent, and compelling account of justice free of controversial elements of a particular "worldview." I am not the first critic to …
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La justicia y el contrato social en John Rawls y cómo superar sus limitaciones
Desde que apareció Teoría de la Justicia de John Rawls en 1971, los estudios anglosajones en filosofía política tomaron un nuevo impulso. En este trabajo, pretendo analizar el con-tractualismo contemporáneo y reforzar la posibilidad de un acuerdo social. Describiré algunos conceptos de la TJ con el …
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