Abstract Scholars of political thought often view Plato as a ‘political moralist’, or ‘utopian’ partly due to the Republic’s emphasis on ‘justice’. But in Republic, offers distinctive theory legitimacy, one that grounds legitimacy an interdependent relationship between justice and moderation. Justice requires principle specialisation be respected, while moderation citizens agree about who shoul...

The ideas of later Rawls (after 1993) and particularly his early period work (before the 70s 20th century), often become subject serious attention. In author’s view, this situation establishes stereotypical one-sided interpretations. However, objective attention to Rawls’ (the project naturalist ethics based on protestant basis, morality, which constitutes itself through fact perception others ...

Abstract Business ethics can be regarded as a field dealing with corporate self-regulation it relates to the treatment of stakeholders. However, concern for stakeholders need not take corporate-centric perspective, shown by recent efforts (especially Singer in Bus Ethics Q 25(1):65–92, 2015) situate conduct within Rawls’ political theory. Although Rawls was largely mute on subject himself, his ...

This essay disputes G. A. Cohen’s claim that John Rawls’s argument for the difference principle involves an argument from moral arbitrariness to equality and then an illicit move away from equality. Moreover, the claim that an argument from moral arbitrariness establishes equality as the essential distributive justice ideal is found wanting. Rescuing Justice and Equality is an original, subtle,...