Reconciliation Arguments in John Rawls’s Political Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Meek Lange (Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 306-324 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1440991714z.00000000037 |
| OpenAlex | W2062609786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
Recently debates about the worth of “ideal theory” have directed attention to the functions that an account of a perfectly just society can serve. One function is that of “reconciliation”: learning that a seemingly undesirable feature of the social world would exist even in the perfectly just society can show us the value that it has in the present as well. John Rawls has emphasized reconciliation as among the roles of political philosophy. For instance, Rawls claims that his theory of justice can reconcile us to the pluralism of liberal democracies. In this essay, I argue that Rawls’s political theory also can reconcile the inhabitants of liberal democratic societies to the fact that such societies may be cognitively confusing on account of their complexity. Then I contend that Rawls’s work offers valuable theoretical resources for analysing a society’s transparency or lack thereof
Classical liberalism · Democracy · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Ideal theory · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Liberalism · Pluralism (philosophy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public reason · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Value pluralism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Justice as Fairness
Role Obligations
Social unity and primary goods
Varieties of Transparency
A Theory of Justice
Hegel
John Rawls and the Search for Stability A Theory of Justice . John Rawls Political Liberalism . John Rawls
Autonomy and Vulnerability Entwined
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Ideal Theory” as Ideology
Hegel's Social Philosophy
Two Concepts of Rules
Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory
Justice as fairness
The Idea of Justice
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |