The purpose of this thesis is to develop an alternative account of how justice as fairness can be delivered. My general proposition is that if justice as fairness is to be regarded as a realistic utopia, some alterations need to be made into the argument about the possibilities of its realization offered by Rawls. The main problem comes from the idea of overlapping consensus and its association with stability. A crucial working conjecture is that we need overlapping consensus neither to stabilize justice as fairness, nor to justify it. My alterations to Rawls's argument also originate as a result of two theoretical burdens within political liberalism: its notion of stability and its account of the fact of reasonable pluralism. Both ideas ha...
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THIS PAPER IS THE CO-WINNER OF THE FRED BERGER PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW FOR THE 1999 AMERICAN PHIL...
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Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria 2023.I claim that the revisions John Rawls made to...
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This thesis offers a comprehensive examination of the notion of moral stability in Rawls's political...
John Rawls’s move from A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism was motivated by his dissatisfact...
In A Theory of Justice John Rawls constructs a comprehensive social contract theory of justice to st...
This dissertation offers a critical discussion of the prioritisation of ‘the right’ in John Rawls’s ...
In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls argues that justice is to be understood as fairness. The theory o...
This thesis argues for a novel conception of political realism as a theory of political legitimacy: ...
Numerous conflicting theories about the just distribution of goods in society have emerged in respo...
Political realism criticises the putative abstraction, foundationalism and neglect of the agonistic ...
THIS PAPER IS THE CO-WINNER OF THE FRED BERGER PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW FOR THE 1999 AMERICAN PHIL...
G.A. Cohen accuses Rawls of illicitly tailoring basic principles of justice to the ‘crooked wood’ of...
Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria 2023.I claim that the revisions John Rawls made to...
Although John Rawls’s work has been incredibly influential in political philosophy, the question of ...
John Rawls\u27s transition from A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism was driven by his reject...
Would it be desirable to reform the global institutional order in conformity with the principles Raw...
A Theory of Justice,\u27 John Rawls\u27s new book on social and legal philosophy, appears likely to ...
This thesis offers a comprehensive examination of the notion of moral stability in Rawls's political...
John Rawls’s move from A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism was motivated by his dissatisfact...
In A Theory of Justice John Rawls constructs a comprehensive social contract theory of justice to st...
This dissertation offers a critical discussion of the prioritisation of ‘the right’ in John Rawls’s ...
In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls argues that justice is to be understood as fairness. The theory o...
This thesis argues for a novel conception of political realism as a theory of political legitimacy: ...
Numerous conflicting theories about the just distribution of goods in society have emerged in respo...
Political realism criticises the putative abstraction, foundationalism and neglect of the agonistic ...
THIS PAPER IS THE CO-WINNER OF THE FRED BERGER PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW FOR THE 1999 AMERICAN PHIL...
G.A. Cohen accuses Rawls of illicitly tailoring basic principles of justice to the ‘crooked wood’ of...