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Paradoxes in Rawls’ Theory and Justice Generated in Practice(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2013年03期
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Title:
Paradoxes in Rawls’ Theory and Justice Generated in Practice
Author(s):
LU Pin-yue
Keywords:
Rawls’ theory of justice justice-utility paradox veil of ignorance maxi-min paradox practice-based generation
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Abstract:
Rawls set the “pure justice” as the supreme universal value and took it as an ultra-utilitarian idea; however, this kind of justice is still built on the basis of “utilitarian balance”. He wanted to pull people out of their social relationship and put them into an initial state(i.e. behind “veil of ignorance”)to obtain the value criterion of justice. But once people leave the social relationship of practice, they will lose their ability to make judgments about justice. In addition, he believed that people behind “veil of ignorance” would choose institutional designs which would make the persons in worst social status have the best conditions in order to protect themselves from the worst situations. However, such a theory does not only recognize the legitimacy of inequality as its prerequisite, but it is inconsistent with the reality as well. In fact, the concept of justice is generated in human practice. A just social system is established in the process of the formation of “social man as a whole” through the inner link among people, and the goal of the justice is to achieve fundamental human purposes, i.e. survival and development.

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