Abstract

SANTOS CASTRO, Juan Samuel. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RAWLS' IDEAL THEORY AND THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Eidos [online]. 2008, n.9, pp.240-270. ISSN 1692-8857.

The assumption of strict obedience, and other features of the well ordered society (WOS), is a great idealization that Rawls does from the actual and historical circumstances in which contemporary societies exist. From there comes the objection according to which the whole project of justice as fairness is just useless, for it has no purpose at all to know what would it be the principles of justice for a well ordered society that only exist in theory. The aims of this paper are to make clear the meaning of the well ordered society's assumption - the society which the ideal theory takes care of -; to point out the links between this kind of theory and the methodology of the political philosophy and the notion of feasibility; and to look again the useless objection in the light of the above considerations. Before the useless objection, it is proposed a twofold answer that could be inferred from Rawls work.

Keywords : Justice; feasibility; fairness.

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