Abstract

VILLAVICENCIO, LUIS. The Political Conception of Person and the Constitutive Visions of the Good. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2007, vol.56, n.135, pp.29-48. ISSN 0120-0062.

This article analyzes whether the strategy displayed by Rawls starting with the Dewey Lectures makes it possible to overcome the comprehensive character that some critics attribute to his political conception of person. After describing said conception, the paper reviews the objection that it is incompatible with those conceptions of the good that attribute a constitutive character to attachments and ends. Finally, it is concluded that although the distinction between political and comprehensive liberalism is unstable, it is compatible with constitutive conceptions of the good.

Keywords : Rawls; liberalism; communitarianism; person; good.

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