PHIL 2923 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Lee Kuan Yew, Reflective Equilibrium, Justice As Fairness
8 Dec 2017
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Rawls is giving us a whole conception of philosophical justification. You could basically apply this all sorts of problems. To be more specific, any kind of problem where you"re not going to be able to solve it by just doing experiments. We have questions that don"t allow such solutions so rawls" proposal is something like the following. We address a number of things, we endorse all sorts of judgments about the subject matter we are interested in, in our case its justice and morality broadly construed. There are going to be all these judgments about justice and morality that we are inclined to accept. Rawls" suggestion is, of all these judgements that we are inclined to accept, lets take a subset that we feel particularly feel strongly confident, that we know are really solid, and let"s take those as our starting points. Let"s start with the most solid ones like slavery is wrong, racial discrimination is wrong.
