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Rawls & the Original Position

A topic within Social & Political Philosophy, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.

Reading on Rawls & the Original Position

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2 works

Book2001

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

John Rawls

Restates the original position and the two principles of justice from A Theory of Justice in a shorter, revised form addressed directly to the objections it drew.

Book1982

Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

Michael Sandel

Argues that Rawls's original position requires an 'unencumbered self' stripped of the ends and attachments that actually constitute a person's identity, and that no such self could choose anything.

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