A escolha dos principios de justiça na obra Uma teoria da justiça de John Rawls / The choice of the principles of justice in A theory of justice by John Rawls

AUTOR(ES)

Maria Carolina Meira Mattos Vicente de Azevedo

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

he aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the methodological unit of A Theory of Justice by John Rawls. We imply that, in his book, Rawls has the ideal of a “moral geometry” in mind and the work gains form and organizes itself from this ideal. In an original way, Rawls tries to adapt and apply methodological developments of the Greek geometric analysis to the solution of philosophical problems. In the analysis stage, Rawls starts from the social justice problem and moves towards the conditions that will make the solution to the problem feasible. He states that the original position gathers all the possible conditions to choose the general principles of justice acceptable to all men. As the original position notion is assured only by analogies through the reflective equilibrium method and the congruence of the right and the good, Rawls substitutes the synthesis stage, i.e., the justice principles proof, by the practical task of indefinitely advancing the theoretical research in the social justice field. In this task the notion of original position plays a heuristic role. It is before a huge audience and in the actual production of scientific knowledge that Rawls’ theory is revealed to be debated upon and evaluated as a possible norm for the political and social institutions.

ASSUNTO(S)

social justice justiça social etica ethics

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