How Is John Rawls to Justify His Two Principles of Justice?
Philosophers need to justify their philosophical theory,but this justification is more dif-ficult thing than advancing the theory.John Rawls makes a tremendous influence to contemporary politi-cal philosophy,because not only he proposes his two principles of justice,but also give the principles a forceful justification.John Rawls provides two different kinds of justifications for his two principles of justice:In A Theory of Justice,he uses the concept of"original position"to justify the principles of jus-tice,which justification expresses the idealness of the principles and has a contractual nature;In Politi-cal Liberalism,he uses the concept of"overlapping consensus"to provide the justification,which fo-cuses the stability and the feasibility of just society,and has some historical nature.John Rawls'justifi-cations not only provides a forceful support for his two principles of justice,but also makes a huge influ-ence to the justification of political philosophy.
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