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Justice Idea Of John Rawls And The Inspirations To Our National Education

Posted on:2010-02-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J N ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360278451430Subject:Principles of Education
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John Rawls (John Rawls 1921 - 2002), a well-known philosopher, ethicists, political scientists of the United States, exhausting lifetime to study on the theory of justice."Theory of Justice"is his masterpiece. Rawls proposed that justice must be the primary intention of fair achievement. He resolutely suggested fair achievement is the first choice whereas free achievement is the tradition in the West; therefore his theory is also called justice as fairness. In his works, Rawls proposed the famous just principle, advocated through re-establishment of the just principle and the orientation achievements eradicates the utilitarianism to assign the idea and the leading role, causes to take the fair justice theory to substitute the present utilitarianism. With the economical development in our country, the tendency of utilitarianism has already presented in people's values. To eradicate influence which utilitarianism brings, realizing fair and just is profitable target of the social development. The education is the same. As the enlargement demand of the outstanding educational resources, supply and demand contradiction in the education is getting more and more obvious. The educational fairness has already become the focus of attention. How to effectively allocate the outstanding educational resources and the right to education becomes the urgent matter in the educational development. This was not only eradicates the utilitarianism influence in the education, but also achieves the support social justice through the education. It is also the basic approach to promote the morality, realizing the social harmonious. The following is brief outlines of various parts in the paper.The introduction part introduces briefly to Rawls as well as the urgency of fair and justice in our country's educational realistic situation. Then draws out the question to be, namely, what is the genuine fairness and justice; what is the criterion of fair and justice and how to realize it.The second part introduces Rawls's biography and its theory origin, the theory characteristic and era background. Then the readers can clearly acquaint era background and theory origin of the fair and justice, meanwhile understand appearance reason of his theory characteristics, so as to comprehend Rawls's just theory profoundly .In the third part, under the foundational thought which elaborated several representative characters' on the utilitarianism, achieving the goal of justice through which animadverted on utilitarianism and the intuitionism. Enable the readers to understand Rawls's achievement fair just view, moreover through indicating just view of the system and the morals, making people realize Rawls's just view and the moral outlook, namely ,not only should achieve the fairness on the procedure and system, simultaneously establish the corresponding just view.The fourth part is the application of Rawls's theory in reality, namely enlightenment to the education of our country. As the educational problems, which particularly on the fairness and the modern students' moral in our country receive much more concern? Using the educational resources and educational rights assignment on the system as the starting point expounds unfair phenomenon in our country's education. Through elaboration of Rawls's justice principles, inducing our attention to the importance of the justice and how to allocate the outstanding educational resources and the educational rights manifests fair and justice in our country's education. Simultaneously the justice on the system aspect is precisely for better promotion of the moral. Implementing fair and the just thought through the system aspect, enables people to abandon indifference, eliminates utilitarianism influence which in the realistic society between the human and the human relates, realizes the normalization of interpersonal relationship, enables people to obtain the corresponding sense of justice.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Theory of Justice, justice as fairness, the enlightenment to the education of our country, justice view
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