Rawls’s Point of View: A Systematic Reading of Justice as Fairness
This paper offers a systematic reading of justice as fairness. By ‘systematic reading’ I mean an interpretation capable of presenting the rawlsian political conception as a coherent theoretical framework with all its stages of justification. I argue that the concept of point of view allows for this...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brazilian Political Science Association
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Political Science Review |
| Online Access: | https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/rawlss-point-of-view-a-systematic-reading-of-justice-as-fairness/ |
| Summary: | This paper offers a systematic reading of justice as fairness. By ‘systematic reading’ I mean an interpretation capable of presenting the rawlsian political conception as a coherent theoretical framework with all its stages of justification. I argue that the concept of point of view allows for this kind of interpretation. In the first part of this paper, I briefly discuss the difficulties of obtaining a comprehensive understanding of justice as fairness from some proposals previously set forth in the literature. In the second part, I make a formal definition of the concept of point of view and expound the main points of view in justice as fairness. Finally, I set out in detail what I will call here ‘Rawls’s point of view’, the starting point of justice as fairness. |
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| ISSN: | 1981-3821 1981-3821 |