Moral Psychology, Stability and The Law of Peoples

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-397
Author(s):  
David A. Reidy
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
International Context ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Stability

In this paper I take seriously Rawls’s characterization of his The Law of Peoples as carrying forward the project of Political Liberalism. The latter articulates Rawls’s reworking of the stability argument from Part III of A Theory of Justice to better square it with the permanent fact of reasonable doctrinal pluralism under conditions of freedom and right. As presented in Theory the stability argument is an argument from moral psychology. This moral psychology structures the problem generated by doctrinal pluralism in both Political Liberalism and The Law of Peoples, each of which sets out a consistent principled liberal response to it, the former in the domestic, and the latter in the international, context. Bringing this moral psychology to the surface sheds considerable light on Rawls’s attempt to vindicate the possibility of world hospitable to enduring just and stable constitutional liberal democracies governed by legitimate law.

scholarly journals El ius gentium y la idea liberal de un orden mundial justo en John Rawls

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Higinio Llano Alonso
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Con A ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Law ◽  
Ius Gentium

Este artículo se centra en The Law of Peoples (1999), libro con el que John Rawls cierra el tríptico de su concepción socio-democrática de la justicia dentro de la tradición liberal, iniciada a principios de la década de los ‘70 con A Theory of Justice (1971), donde describe la justicia como equidad como un ideal moral universal al que deben aspirar todas las sociedades, y continuada dos décadas más tarde con Political Liberalism (1993), obra en la que el pensador estadounidense abunda en su idea de extender una concepción política de la justicia al Derecho de los pueblos y a su función reguladora de las relaciones justas entre los pueblos. De cualquier modo, pese a que Rawls admite expresamente la ascendencia que tienen sobre su idea de justicia el contractualismo y el iusnaturalismo kantianos, así como la influencia que ejerce sobre su estudio dedicado al Derecho de gentes la doctrina universalista e iusirenista del Derecho internacional público, veremos hasta qué punto satisfizo o defraudó Rawls con su visión pluralista del orden mundial las expectativas de quienes esperaban que hiciera una defensa firme de la justicia universal y de la democracia cosmopolita. 

scholarly journals La propuesta filosóficopolítica de John Rawls en el marco de The Law of Peoples

Magistro ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
William Farfán Moreno
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Law

Antes de abordar cualquiera de las problemáticas que surgen en la obrade John Rawls –The Law of Peoples–, es imprescindible comprender variosde los constructos que emplea el filósofo norteamericano en su propuestafilosófico-política desde A Theory of Justice hasta Political Liberalism.Los constructos son el procedimiento que asegura una convivencia políticaya sea entre ciudadanos, como lo propone Rawls en A Theory of Justice y locomplementa luego en Political Liberalism, o entre naciones a través de supropuesta en The Law of Peoples. Por lo tanto, el objetivo de este documentoes realizar una reconstrucción de tales constructos dentro de la propuestanormativa con la intención de plantear los problemas que surgen al interiordel derecho de gentes “rawlsiano”.

scholarly journals APRESENTAÇÃO – DOSSIÊ RAWLS

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Denis Coitinho Silveira
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
Justice As Fairness ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Law

A edição especial da Revista Dissertatio pretende refletir sobre a importância da filosofia moral e política de John Rawls no cenário filosófico atual no ano em que sua obra mais conhecida, A Theory of Justice (TJ), completa quarenta anos. Esta data comemorativa é apenas um pretexto para uma avaliação integral do projeto de Rawls, o que inclui obras posteriores, como, por exemplo, Political Liberalism (PL) e The Law of Peoples (LP). Os artigos aqui reunidos procuram tematizar tanto a estrutura quanto o conteúdo da teoria da justiça como equidade (justice as fairness), avaliando atentamente as suas virtudes e, também, as suas fraquezas

John Rawls, “The Law of Peoples,” and International Political Theory

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 125-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Brown
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
English Language ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
International Political Theory ◽  
International Issues ◽  
The Law ◽  
Political Philosopher

John Rawls is the most influential English-language political philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century – indeed, perhaps since John Stuart Mill. His influence rests partly on the very format of his masterwork, A Theory of Justice. But Theory is a flawed and incomplete masterpiece, and the “Rawls industry” that has developed around his work has been stimulated by these imperfections. Indeed, Rawls himself has corrected and elaborated upon his original formulations in a series of essays compiled in Political Liberalism and his recent Collected Papers. One of the most controversial features of Theory concerns its handling of international issues; Rawls turned to this question explicitly in an Amnesty International Lecture of 1993, “The Law of Peoples” (published in his Collected Papers), which he has now extended into a monograph with the same title. The latter is the main focus of this essay, which also includes a sketch of Rawls's project as a whole as a necessary preliminary.

scholarly journals EPISTEMOLOGIA MORAL COERENTISTA EM RAWLS

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Coitinho Silveira
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
Justice As Fairness ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Law

Meu principal objetivo neste artigo é analisar o problema da justificação moral para John Rawls a partir dos textos A Theory of Justice (TJ, IX, § 87), Political Liberalism (PL III, § 2), Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (JF I, § 9), The Law of Peoples (LoP I, § 1), “Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics” (ODPE), “The Independence of Moral Theory” (IMT), “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical” (JFPnM). Minha intenção é a de caracterizar a teoria da justiça como equidade como um sistema coerentista de justificação que conta com uma epistemologia coerentista holística, uma teoria do contrato social que introduz uma ontologia social e uma estratégia pragmatista na teoria contratualista. No escopo deste trabalho, analisarei as características da epistemologia coerentista holística pressuposta e de como ela resolve os problemas de regresso epistêmico, dogmatismo, dualismo, assimetria e circularidade.

Uma Justificação Coerentista dos Direitos Humanos em Rawls

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Denis Coitinho Silveira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Public Justification ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Pragmatic Function ◽  
Primary Goods ◽  
The Law ◽  
Political Foundation

The aim of this paper is to identify how the ethical-political foundation of human rights in John Rawls’s theory of justice makes use of a coherentist model of moral justification in which cognitivism, liberalism, pluralism, non-foundationalism, and mitigated intuititionism stand out, leading to a pragmatic model of foundation with public justification in The Law of Peoples (LP). The main idea is to think about the reasonableness of the universal defence of human rights as primary goods with the aspects foliows: its political nature, not metaphysical; its theoretical coherentist model, non-foundationalist; its pragmatic function and its public justification.

scholarly journals Ideal and nonideal theory: A conceptual overview

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-173
Author(s):  
Milica Trifunovic
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Nonideal Theory ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Conceptual Clarification ◽  
The Law ◽  
Conceptual Overview

The article gives conceptual clarification on a distinction between ideal and nonideal theory by analyzing John Rawls? theory as presented in his books ?A Theory of Justice? and ?The Law of Peoples.? The article tries to show the importance of ideal theory, while at the same time pointing out that the distinction, ideal and nonideal, needs further qualification. Further, the article also introduces the distinction of normative and descriptive into ideal and consequently nonideal theory. Through this four-fold distinction it is easier to establish the function of each theory and the separation of work-fields between philosophers, politicians and lawyers.

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