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The Public interest, 2003-04, Vol.151 (151), p.39-51
Ort / Verlag
Washington: National Affairs, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2003
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Argues that the egalitarian liberalism John Rawls calls justice in A Theory of Justice (1971) is both undesirable & unworkable in practice. An overview of Rawls's life & work is followed by an exploration of his position of "justice as fairness," maintaining it was based on a hypothetical social contract. Rawls failed to consider human nature in his portrait of a reasonable people able to choose the principles of justice. He later revised his theory of justice to emphasize justice as a moral expression of the liberal ideal of community & even the world. Flaws in the methods used by Rawls to develop his theory are pointed out, along with the illiberal nature of his deduction of political morality in relation to such issues as abortion. It is contended that Rawls not only defined rationality in terms of his preferred political views, but his writings are filled with abstractions that represent a "flight from reality." Rawls's notion of justice as fairness is applied to a real-world example to illustrate its indefensibility. J. Lindroth