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"A Theory of Justice" as Rorschach Test

Gledhill, James
2021
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1825-5167
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10.13137/1825-5167/33980
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/33980
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This article takes up Brian Barry’s suggestion that ‘Somebody could write an article on “A Theory of Justice as Rorschach Test”’. Turning Barry’s suggestion back onto his own work, and that of other influential interpreters who shaped the reception of Rawls in analytic political philosophy, it argues that these readers approached Theory with preconceived notions of the methods of analytic philosophy and the nature of a liberal theory. Whether as largely sympathetic or critical readers, they found in Theory the articulation of a liberal individualist political ideology resting on Kantian moral foundations that provided philosophical support for the capitalist welfare state. But alongside this dominant line of interpretation, one can also unearth a counter-narrative. If one allows one’s preconceived notions of what a liberal theory in the analytic tradition should look like to be challenged, an alternative picture of Rawls can emerge. On this alternative view, Rawls has a holistic approach to justification with roots in post-analytic philosophy and the tradition of German idealism and his theory takes forward an idealist tradition of thought that stretched from Rousseau, Kant and Hegel up to Bernard Bosanquet.
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Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
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  • John Rawls

  • A Theory of Justice

  • justice

  • liberalism

  • political philosophy

  • Brian Barry

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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James Gledhill, "'A Theory of Justice' as Rorschach Test" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2021) XXIII/3", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2021, pp. 85-114
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Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
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