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Rawls' Conception Of Justice Rheology

Posted on:2014-04-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2266330401969819Subject:Legal theory
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The Theory of Justice, which is known to us for its two principles, is continuing to develop other than invariable. It has developed from the moral conception of justice to the political justice. The moral conception of justice is based on the comprehensive doctrines of Immanuel Kant, the members of the well-ordered society based on moral homogeneity agree with the comprehensive doctrines. The political justice, a "freestanding view" which is derived from the conception of common political culture of democratic society, is accepted as the focus of an overlapping consensus of multiple reasonable but incompatible comprehensive doctrines.The relationship is the slightest change of the resultant theory of "Justice as fairness" and the persistent value of egalitarian liberalism, the concentration on taking the fundamental construct of society as the theme of the theory of justice and the argument of the theory of justice by the method of contractual demonstration and reflective equilibrium. They are some different between them. The moral justice belongs to moral philosophy while the political justice is part of political philosophy; the distinction of the conception of "well-ordered society" and "free and equal person" in a system of fair social cooperation. Rawls Supplemented and developed the conception of "overlapping consensus" and "public reason" as an analytical tool that lay the foundation of the charity principle for the modern democratic society, which make the political liberalism becoming possible.The reason of the changing of the Rawls’ theory of justice is that the fact of reasonable pluralism in a constitutional democracy society indicates the theory of justice can only be reaching a certain degree consensus other than the requirement of moral homogeneity. The stability of moral justice which is based on members of the moral homogeneity and the resulting social legitimacy is questioned.The worth and impaction of changing of the Rawls’ theory of justice is that Rawls’ political justice brings a new life to the liberalism conception of justice, it’s a deepening of individualism which is the core concept of liberalism, and a complement of liberal equality. Political liberalism emphasizes the individual worthy and respects the plurality conception of individual.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rawls, Justice, Political Justice, Liberalism, Individual Worthy
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