Rawls on average and total utility
โ Scribed by Gregory S. Kavka
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1008 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-8116
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
As I was reading and rereading diligently along in John Rawls' Theory of Justice (Harvard University Press, 1971), hoping to figure out whodunit, I was startled by the following three sentences in a footnote on p. 209: "Mill's definition of utility as grounded on the permanent interests of a man as
Rawls's attempt to develop a notion of political community compatible with his style of liberalism has not received much attention. In several recent essays, but particularly in 'The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus'] RaMs has developed an account of political community -which he calls social unity