Environmental Justice and Rawlsian Social Contract Theory

Rawlsian Justice and Palliative Care.

Palliative care serves both as an integrated part of treatment and as a last effort to care for those we cannot cure. The extent to which palliative care should be provided and our reasons for doing so have been curiously overlooked in the debate about distributive justice in health and healthcare. We argue that one prominent approach, the Rawlsian approach developed by Norman Daniels, is unabl...

Social Contract and Economic Justice Social Contract and Economic Justice 1. from Hypothetical to Empirical Contracts

This paper seeks to construct a social contract theory of economic justice using Barry's (1989: 347-8) empirical method of contractual reasoning. Barry described this method in a passage worth quoting at length: 'The empirical method starts from observation rather than pure thought. It is animated by the consideration that actual societies approximate more or less closely the conditions .... th...

Rawlsian Individuals: Justice, Experiments, and Complexity

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice is examined from the perspective of experimental methods in economics and complex adaptive systems simulations. This paper first discusses the justice principle selection process in Rawls’s representation of it as a hypothetical experiment. This hypothetical experiment fails to satisfy reasonable experimental controls, particularly as reflects the conception of ...

Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice

Agency, Cyberspace, and Social Contract

The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...