Principles of Justice, Primary Goods and Categories of Right

Rawls and Kant

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20510345
AutoresPaul Guyer (0000-0001-7195-6710, John Brown University, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume23
Fascículo4
Páginas581-613
Data de publicação2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoKantian Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-4154 • E-ISSN: 2044-2394
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1369415418000419
OpenAlexW2900916869
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas22

John Rawls based his theory of justice, in the work of that name, on a ‘Kantian interpretation’ of the status of human beings as ‘free and equal’ persons. In his subsequent, ‘political rather than metaphysical’ expositions of his theory, the conception of citizens of democracies as ‘free and equal’ persons retained its foundational role. But Rawls appealed only to Kant’s moral philosophy, never to Kant’s own political philosophy as expounded in his 1797 Doctrine of Right in the Metaphysics of Morals . I argue here that the structure of Kant’s political philosophy, with its categories of the innate right to freedom, private acquired right and public right, can clarify the relationship between Rawls’s two principles of justice and his scheme of basic liberties and primary goods

Categorical imperative · Doctrine · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Metaphysics · Morality · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Primary goods · Theology · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought