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The Implication of Rawls’ Approach to Public Reason |
LIU Xin() |
Department of Philosophy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China |
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Abstract Rawls’ appealing to free agreement in the original position cannot be understood as the source of real commitment to principles of social justice. According to the contextualistic interpretation, to establish and clarify the reasonableness of one context, one needs to appeal to the reasonableness of some higher-order contexts. Because the two meta-contexts of global basic structure and domestic basic structure can be seen as higher-order or lower-order context relative to each, depending on concrete cases, by excluding the consideration of global situation that must have effects on the realization of domestic justice, “justice as fairness” is blind both to the global context of domestic justice and to the domestic context of global justice.
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Keywords
Rawls
Contextualism
Justification
Global
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Corresponding Author(s):
LIU Xin,Email:lxphil@gmail.com
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Issue Date: 05 March 2011
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