Universal Value and Significance of Rawls'Constructing Institutional Justice with Social Contract Theory
Ralws'A Theory of Justice reflects profound problems raised by contemporary Western social movements.He argues for legitimacy of principles of justice with original contract by people on original positions,so to revive normative political philosophy.The theory of contract is an imaginary premise,as an explanatory device,becomes a starting point arguing for fundamental political and legal conceptions,e.g.,natural rights,principles of justice,which has a character of universality.Communi-tarians criticize that individual who makes the contract applied by the principle of equal freedom is a self unrestrained by aim.But liberalists do not take the self as unencumbered self totally independent of aim,rather,the self is prior to aim,and is always the active dynamic side in the relationship between self and aim.Rawlsian priori institutionalist approach deeply expounds composition and construction of just institutions for its establishment by legislation and put into practice,which shows its universal val-ue and significance.
John Rawlsprinciples of justicetheory of social contractinstitutionalism
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