The Perfectionisms of John Rawls

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

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...

hermeneutics of paradise lost of john milton

از منظر ریشه شناسی ، واژه "هرمنوتیک" به فرایند قابل درک و فهم نمودن شی، مفهوم یا موقعیتی مبهم وغیر قابل درک اشاره می کند.علم ترجمه، قلب علم هرمنوتیک محسوب می شود زیرا مارا از فاصله ها و تضاد هایی که در امر تاویل و تفسیر موجود است آگاه می سازد( پالمر، 1969). در حقیقت ، ترجمه را می توان نوعی تمرین دشوار هرمنوتیک دانست که متضمن درک معانی متون و انتقال وفادارانه این معانی و ساختارها از زبانی خاص با...

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

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...