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>>12872779
a theory of justice

A socialist in denial

>>12872779
One of the best, most detailed and one of the most misunderstood works in the history of political philosophy.

t. Currently writing my barchelor thesis on Rawls.
>>12872788
While some modern scholars believe that he was a reluctant socialist, Rawls himself claimed that he is neutral between egalitarian forms of capitalism which guarantee wide distribution of private property and market-based forms of socialism.

>>12872799
>thinking a social democrat has anything useful to say about justice
You need to go back.

>>12872779
>dude what if justice were the trolley problem and everyone were NPCs lmao
Certified retard.

>dude let's give weighted rights that are of no use to poor people to poor people lmao

>>12872808
Nice ad hominem.

By the way, he explicitly rejects the idea of a welfare state, as it does not go far enough in preventing narrow distribution of property.
>>12872823
He does not reject the fact that moral intuitions guide us in everyday life and political decision, not systematic philosophy. He merely acknowledges that they can put us no further in adjusting our conflicting claims on the order of the basic structure of society, hence the need for an exact theory that we would intuitively accept in the veil of ignorance. See his discussions on intuitionism in the first chapter.

>>12872832
It would be a mistake to claim that distribution of primary goods is of no use to any people, including poor and the rich. The fact that wealth prevents people from practicing their primary good is of no concern for the fact that primary goods are still valuable. See his discussion on freedom in the latter part of the first chapter.

Basically Rawls is trying to solve ethics without God. His experience in WWII broke his faith, and he created a fundamentally flawed system in an attempt to fix the world without God. However his war-worn cowardice made him unable to continue on Nietzsches path and onstead we get retarded arguments like the veil of ignorance to justify equality for the weak. Such a pity really, he was obviously a brilliant thinker.

>>12872799
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>>12872858
Do we go to the same uni? Just finished a unit on Rawls earlier this semester

>>12872779
Reddit