Politics & Government · Political Theory
A topic within Political Theory, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
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Michael Sandel
Argues, against Rawls, that people cannot reason about justice from behind a veil of ignorance stripped of the attachments and communal identities that in fact supply most of what they will ever have reason to value or debate.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Michael Walzer
Liberal theory's unencumbered individual, free of unchosen ties, describes no one who actually exists, and every liberal politics that tries to run on that image has to be quietly rescued by the communal attachments it officially denies.
link checked 17 Sept 2026