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John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press (2019)

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  1. The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls.Alexandre Lefebvre - 2022 - Political Theory 50 (3):405-427.
    In this article I interpret John Rawls’s concept of the original position as a spiritual exercise. In addition to the standard interpretation of the original position as an expository device to select principles of justice for the fundamental institutions of society, I argue that Rawls also envisages it as a “spiritual exercise”: a voluntary personal practice intended to bring about a transformation of the self. To make this argument, I draw on the work of Pierre Hadot, a philosopher and classicist, (...)
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  • Rawls, Humanity and the Concept of Expression.Alexandros Manolatos - forthcoming - Moral Philosophy and Politics.
    In this article I present two possible interpretations of Rawls’s assertion in A Theory of Justice that human beings have a desire to express their nature as free and rational. My reading hinges on different accounts of the Kantian conception of the person and of the Aristotelian principle and its companion effect. According to the first interpretation, this desire is a kind of natural predisposition inherent in all persons irrespective of the society in which they live. It has a universal (...)
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  • Stanley Cavell, John Rawls and moral perfectionism in liberal democracy.Alexandre Lefebvre - forthcoming - European Journal of Political Theory.
    John Rawls was what we might call a “frenemy” to Stanley Cavell. Time and again, Cavell states his admiration for Rawls's political philosophy but criticizes it for two reasons. First, he believes that Rawls too hastily dismisses a perfectionist tradition that is essential for a flourishing liberal democracy. Second, he attacks certain aspects of Rawls's theory of justice as moralistic and legalistic. The first half of this article examines Cavell's critique of Rawls and argues that the two authors are more (...)
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  • A modern theodicy: John Rawls and ‘ The Law of Peoples’.Louis Fletcher - forthcoming - European Journal of Political Theory.
    John Rawls’ The Law of Peoples has typically been read as an intervention in the field of ‘global justice’. In this paper, I offer a different and widely overlooked interpretation. I argue that The Law of Peoples is a secular theodicy. Rawls wants to show that the 'great evils' of history do not condemn humankind by using a secularised form of moral faith to search for signs that the social world allows for the possibility of perfect justice. There are, I (...)
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  • Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Twenty-First Century.Bruce Kuklick - 2021 - Analyse & Kritik 43 (2):309-329.
    This essay first traces change in, roughly, the epistemology of the humanities from the 1950s to the 21st century. The second section looks at how the meaning and options in moral philosophy altered in more or less the same period. The last and easily most speculative section examines how these changes permeated American culture, and how professional philosophers responded to the challenges of the new political world they inhabited.
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  • Sidgwick and Rawls on distributive justice and desert.David Miller - 2021 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 20 (4):385-408.
    This article explores, comparatively and critically, Sidgwick’s and Rawls’s reasons for rejecting desert as a principle of distributive justice. Their ethical methods, though not identical, each re...
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  • Gerechtigkeit und Moralismus.Amadeus Ulrich - 2022 - Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 8 (2):89-116.
    Der neue politische Realismus erkennt in John Rawls einen Erzfeind. In jüngeren Debatten scheint oft evident zu sein, dass gerade Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit exemplarisch für einen Moralismus sei, der die politische Wirklichkeit verzerre. Doch die Sache ist kompliziert. In diesem Aufsatz blicke ich zurück auf sein Frühwerk im Lichte dieser Kritik. Dabei geht es mir um vier Einwände: dass Rawls’ Idealtheorie kein Ratgeber für das politische Handeln und ideologisch verblendet sei; Macht und ihre Legitimierbarkeit nicht überzeugend konzipiere; die Bedeutung (...)
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  • Towards a post-pandemic social contract.Domonkos Sik - forthcoming - Thesis Eleven.
    Social contract theories serve a twofold purpose: by addressing acute crises, they elaborate solutions to long-standing social paradoxes. The article reinterprets the stakes of the Covid pandemic from this perspective. Firstly, the long-lasting structural paradoxes of late modernity are linked to the acute crisis of the pandemic with the help of critical theories of late modernity. It is argued that the pandemic provides opportunity for revaluating those social contracts, which are based on universalist principles of justice. Secondly, two paradigmatic historical (...)
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  • Towards a post-pandemic social contract.Domonkos Sik - 2023 - Thesis Eleven 174 (1):62-80.
    Social contract theories serve a twofold purpose: by addressing acute crises, they elaborate solutions to long-standing social paradoxes. The article reinterprets the stakes of the Covid pandemic from this perspective. Firstly, the long-lasting structural paradoxes of late modernity are linked to the acute crisis of the pandemic with the help of critical theories of late modernity. It is argued that the pandemic provides opportunity for revaluating those social contracts, which are based on universalist principles of justice. Secondly, two paradigmatic historical (...)
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  • Editor's introduction: Special issue— Rawls at 100; Theory at 50.David Reidy - 2024 - Journal of Social Philosophy 55 (2):167-177.
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  • John Rawls and R. M. Hare: A Study of Canonization.Bruce Kuklick - 2022 - Analyse & Kritik 44 (1):87-110.
    Why is someone enduringly prized as a philosopher? To answer this question, this historical case study examines the intersecting careers of John Rawls and R. M. Hare. It looks at their writings, a complex chain of disagreements, the argumentative dimension. The essay moreover explores the clash of differing temperaments. Finally, themes in addition to ratiocination and personality are factored in: the leanings of the institutions that control access to intellectual endeavor; the public square—politics widely conceived—into which the two men were (...)
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  • O Senso de Justiça em John Rawls.Raquel Cipriani Xavier - forthcoming - Filosofia Unisinos:1-16.
    Trata-se da tradução do artigo "The Sense of Justice", de John Rawls, publicado originalmente emThe Philosophical Review, Jul., 1963, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 281-305.
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  • Шлях до «теорії справедливості»: Праці джона ролза 1940-х — початку 1950-х років.Леонід Фінберг - 2022 - Filosofska Dumka 2022 (1):23-35.
    За багато років, що минули з того часу, як Джон Ролз видав свою працю «Теорія справедли- вості», в академічних колах сформувалося і набуло великого поширення ставлення до Ролзової теорії як до нового етапу розвитку локівсько-кантівської ліберальної традиції. Однак після того, як нещодавно було відкрито для дослідників папери Ролза в Архіві Гар вард- ського університету, стало зрозуміло, що усталене уявлення є не зовсім точним. Вивчення ранніх праць Ролза, значна частина яких залишається неопублікованими, дало змогу об’єм- ніше побачити етапи та особливості формування (...)
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  • На шляху до експансивного політичного лібералізму: Підхід спроможностей марти нусбаум як реінтерпретація ідей раннього джона ролза.Всеволод Хома - 2022 - Filosofska Dumka 2022 (1):68-83.
    Ідеї пізнього, а особливо раннього періодів творчості Ролза рідко стають предметом серйозної уваги. На думку автора, ця ситуація усталює стереотипні й однобічні тлумачення. Натомість предметна увага до Ролзових ідей раннього і пізнього етапів дає підстави істотно збагатити поле інтерпретацій в сучасній політичній філософії. Мета цієї статті потрійна: довести, що критика Мартою Нусбаум пізніх ідей Ролза, запропонована в межах підходу спроможностей, не є вичерпною; що ця критика постане більш плідною, якщо спиратиметься на деякі ранні ідеї самого Ролза, які той згодом використовувати (...)
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