Critically examine the Rawls authoritarian conception of social justice
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Rawls' Mature Theory of Social Justice
An Introduction for Students
© by Dr. Jan Garrett
for all material not otherwise attributed
Latest Minor Revision: August 24, 2005
Contents
Sources and Related Work
1. Introduction
2. Two Moral Powers
3. Comprehensive Doctrines
(sometimes called "Comprehensive Views")
4. A Political Conception of Justice
5. Reasonable Citizens
6. Reasonable Comprehensive Doctrines
7. Social Contract Theories
8. The Original Position
9. Expounding the Principles of Justice
10. The Two Principles of Justice
11. More on the Equal Basic Liberties
12. Basic Liberties and Property
13. What Does the Second Principle Mean?
For related web pages see
Martha Nussbaum on Capabilities and Human Rights
John Rawls on Concrete Moral Principles: Implications for Business Ethics
For online materials related to John Rawls seeRawls On Line
The main source for this web page is:
John Rawls, Political Liberalism (Columbia University Press, 1996); abbreviated as PL.
Important related works include:
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Harvard University Press, 1971); abbreviated TJ.
John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement(Harvard University Press, 2001); abbreviated JF
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (Oxford University Press); abbreviated DF
Martha C. Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 1999); abbreviated as SSJ.
Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Darrel Moellendorf, Cosmopolitan Justice (Westview Press, 2002); abbreviated CJ
The use of underscore for emphasis is mine, unless otherwise explicitly noted.--JG
1. Introduction
John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. He is primarily known for his theory of justice as fairness, which develops principles of justice to govern a modern social order. Rawls' theory provides a framework that explains the significance, in a society assumed to consist of free and equal persons, of political and personal liberties, of equal opportunity, and cooperative arrangements that benefit the more and the less advantaged members of society.
Darrel Moellendorf writes that Rawls' conception of justice, like any conception of justice whatsoever, is an associational conception. It is about relationships between members of an association. Rawls is chiefly concerned with the political association known as the modern nation-state. Moellendorf and other defenders of "cosmopolitan justice" apply the approach Rawls developed for the nation-state to the global community, which may be understood as an economic association even if there is no effective international political association. More may be said later about cosmopolitan justice. Here the important point is that Rawls' initial concern with justice is related to relationships between persons within an association.
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