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Rawlsian Self-Respect And Limiting Liberties In The Background Culture, Kyle William Chapel
Rawlsian Self-Respect And Limiting Liberties In The Background Culture, Kyle William Chapel
Masters Theses
John Rawls tells us in his landmark work, A Theory of Justice (1971), that self-respect is the “most important primary good” (TJ 386) and that “the parties in the original position would wish to avoid at almost any cost the social conditions that undermine self-respect” (TJ 440). The importance of self-respect is a theme that continues throughout the body of Rawl’s work; in Political Liberalism (1993) Rawls tells us that in considering different principles of justice parties in the original position put a great deal of emphasis on “how well principles of justice support self-respect” (PL 319). Given the …
A Rawlsian Case For Public Judgment, Justin Matthew Deaton
A Rawlsian Case For Public Judgment, Justin Matthew Deaton
Doctoral Dissertations
We can best understand the moral obligations of citizens and officials concerning public reason as set out by John Rawls when two differing standards latent in his body of work are made explicit. The weaker standard, which I call Public Representation (or PR), is exegetically supported primarily by the proviso found in his “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”. PR allows that citizens may deliberate over serious political matters, both internally and with others, according to whatever perspective and using whatever reasons they please, so long as they believe the positions they advocate are adequately just and adequately justifiable with …