How Is Justice as Morality Possible——A Comparative Analysis of Hume's and Rawls's Thoughts of Moral Basis of Justice
Both Hume and Rawls answer the question of the moral basis of justice in a non-metaphysical context.The assumption of consistent justice environment constitutes the starting point of their justice theory,and the idea of reason of emotionalism is their fundamental way of thinking.By inquiring into the moral basis of their theories of justice,we can find out the internal connection and different limitations of the two theories of justice.The solution lies in clarifying and confirming the status of sympathy and sense of justice in the theory of justice.Through the appropriate modification of the hypothesis of justice environment,we can not only better answer the question of the moral basis of justice,but also understand the consistency of the two theories of justice.The theories of justice of Hume and Rawls have their own emphasis,but they can complement each other,which reflects the two ways of interpretation that can be interlinked in the development process of western non-metaphysical theories of justice.