Sociological Not Political: Rawls and the Reconstructive Social Sciences  

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Kelly, Terrence

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy of the Social Sciences vol. 31 no. 1 (Mar. 2001), page 3-19.
Fulltext: 3PSS311.pdf (67.38KB)

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Like many critics of Rawls, Habermas believes that the Original Position (OP) implicitly utilizes normative (and unargued for) assumptions. The author defends theOPby arguing that its basic concepts are the product of a rational reconstruction of the everyday know-how, orcommonsense, employed by citizens indemocratic practices. The author identifies this reconstruction in Rawls’s work but suggests that while this answers the charge of circularity, it raises the problem of contextual relativism. It is concluded that Rawls can avoid such relativism only on a stronger commitment to social scientific research in support of a more transcendental form of rational reconstruction.

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