A questão do Mínimo Social em John Rawls

Considerações Gerais Sobre a Questão

Information on technical knowledge has become, with the industrial productive process expansion, a basic factor for the reproduction of capital. In such a context, Information is achieving an ever growing political characteristic leading to the division of the world into information-poor countries and information-rich countries. In spite of its potential as a development tool for the countries,...

Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) is widely credited with having revived post–World War II Anglo American political philosophy. This book together with his later writings are routinely judged to constitute the most important body of work in that field. Indeed, with the collapse of Second World and Third World socialist ideologico-political alternatives, liberalism in one form or another h...

Revisiting Rawls

The present paper revisits the issue of rational decision making in John Rawls’ original position. Drawing on Isaac Levi’s theory of decision, I discuss how we can defend Rawls against John C. Harsanyi’s charge that maximin reasoning in the original position is irrational. The discussion suggests that systematic application of Levi’s theory is likely to have important consequences for ethics an...

Work ( s ) : Some Ordinalist - Utilitarian Notes on Rawls ' s Theory of Justice by John

Rawls and Kantian Constructivism