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Intergenerational Justice and Rawls' Answer

Luka Juroš

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This paper addresses the issue of our obligation to ensure justice for future generations. It does this by first, presenting the idea of political liberalism in John Rawls’s book of the same name, second, by presenting and commenting the critique of his conclusions in the article by Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle and third, by reviewing the possibility that the solution to the intergenerational justice problem, which Rawls put as an assumption, may instead logically follow from the fundamental parts of his theory. The paper shows that Brennan’s conclusion that the parties in the original position should reason with the knowledge they would enter the society at any stage of their lives does not successfully solve the basic problem. Additionally, it shows that if we suppose that most people have the primary interest in balance between freedom and justice then the obligation of justice towards future generations under the conditions of the original position and the social contract may be logically drawn.

Ključne riječi

generation; interest; justice; liberalism; obligation; social contract

Hrčak ID:

179064

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/179064

Datum izdavanja:

1.12.2002.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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