Una interpretación equilibrada de la posición original de Rawls
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ISSN: 0008-7750
Year of publication: 2021
Issue: 55
Pages: 183-208
Type: Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to offer an interpretation of the Rawlsian original position coherent with its own theory of justice. An evaluation of the aforementioned mechanism is presented. Afterwards, in light of it, a solution of the existing overlapping between its elements is offered. The solution is to consider the formal constraints as “partial conclusions”, excluding them from the original position. The original position, as an “intermediate stage” aimed at representing the philosophical foundations of Rawls’s theory in a way that could provide the deduction of the principles of justice, cannot include straightforwardly any characteristic of those principles, not even the formal ones. The remainder of the elements of the original position (the idea of a contract, the circumstances of justice, the veil of ignorance and the rationality of the parties), acting conjointly, allow for the deduction of the formal constraints themselves. In addition, they also engender the same effects on the exclusion of egoism as a proposal of principles of justice.
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