The fallibility objection to the original position

Abstract

Do individuals in John Rawls’s original position take into account the fallibility of human nature? Some notable commentators on Rawls say that they do or that they should. But this enables us to say that individuals in the original position would not come to an agreement at all.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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