PHIL 1200 Lecture 49: Lecture 49

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1200
• Professor: David R.Hampton

Document Summary

Rawls belongs to the tradition of social contract theorist. Moral rules/laws are the product of an implicit agreement among all members of the society, which was created (in theory) right before they entered their particular social arrangement (society, state) Unlike social contract theorists like hobbes and rousseau, rawls does not believe that there is no sense of morality outside the context of the social contract the welfare of society as a whole cannot. In a kantian way, rawls believes that we all have a sense of justice/morality that exists outside our social arrangement. This sense is, in a way, prior to any social arrangement, or the adoption of any particular rules/laws. This is rawls" starting point (cid:498)each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even override being first virtues of human activities, truth and justice are uncompromising(cid:499) A) assigning rights and duties in the basic institutions of society(cid:499) burdens of social cooperation(cid:499)