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Rawls' Political Constructivism With A Touch Of Kant

Posted on:2012-02-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L YanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166330338454399Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Political constructivism is a concept about politics, or it is a kind of method, we understand from narrow sense constructivism could give him to the specific theory, RollsRoyce throughout the justice theory that have established a Rolls-Royce above in such a way. If we understand constructivism is a kind of method, you can find explanation sense as constructivism, this is the well-known traditional contract theory, and Rawls'important theoretical origin is the contract theory of Kant's moral philosophy thoughts and the expressions of constructivism. This is to discuss the for Kant's moral constructionism Rawls produced those, and in these under the influence of the philosophy with the Rolls-Royce starts development and changes, we'll discuss Kant's moral constructivism, his moral constructivism to transcendental idealism and Copernicus revolution as the premise and basis, with practical reason as the main body, established his moral philosophy, the basic principle and content of Kant's sense this is constructivism. Rawls inherited Kant's ideas, he put forward a curtain of ignorance is covered, and constructs the original state program of two of his justice principle who ensures that this principle to use for modern democratic society, he put forward, to ensure the overlapping consensus ideas on two justice principles had built society is stable, but also in order to deal with since the justice theory "result generated published the voice of all sorts of criticism. The two steps is completed, the whole society into an order good and stable society, this is also the theory of John Rawls may be implemented, said a brave effort. For their theory in Rawls made many modification, these changes are he tried to clear the relationship with Kant left, this paper also find out some of the criticism, but fundamentally, Rawls' theory foundation comes from Kant, no matter how to modify their inheritance relation is very obvious.
Keywords/Search Tags:John Rawls, Kant, Political constructivism, Moral constructivism
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