Questions tagged [rawls]
John Rawls (1921 - 2002) was an American philosopher.
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Why is John Rawls taken more seriously than Ayn Rand?
I just listened to a lecture on ethics and justice, and John Rawls' "a theory of justice" was presented as the most significant work of political philosophy in recent times. The lecturer then went on ...
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What are prominent attacks of Rawls' “veil of ignorance” argument? Which liberal philosophers have advanced it?
In John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, he argues that morally, society should be constructed politically as if we were all behind a veil of ignorance; that is, the rules and precepts of society should be ...
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Rawls and the Categorical Imperative
Rawls A Theory of Justice according to Wikipedia, and by his own admission is 'strongly Kantian'.
A foundational point or axiom is his 'Veil of Ignorance' - the original position.
How can this ...
