Rawls, distributive justice and socioeconomic regimes

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378671021

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Rawls, Property-owning democracy, Liberal socialism

Abstract

In A theory of justice, John Rawls develops the main concepts of his conception of justice known as “justice as fairness”. We focus on the distributive aspect of this conception. The following essay tries to show the defining characteristics of a society arranged according to the demands of justice of the two Rawlsian principles of justice. To this end, we explore the major aspects of a property-owning democracy and of liberal socialism, the two examples of socioeconomic regimes Rawls considers to be compatible with his conception of justice.

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Luiz Bernardo Leite Araujo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Luiz Bernardo Leite Araujo completed his Master's in Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1986 and a Doctorate in Philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 1991. He completed postdoctoral internships at the Université Catholique de Louvain (1998), at the State University of New York (2001-2002), at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (2013), at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2013-2014) and at the University of Colorado (2018). He was Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1983-1992), at the Santa Úrsula University (1984-1992) and at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1992-1996). He is currently Full Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He works in the area of ​​Philosophy, with an emphasis on Ethics and Political Philosophy.

Rennan Guerra Pinheiro, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Master in Philosophy at UERJ

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2022-08-08

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Leite Araujo, L. B. L. ., & Pinheiro, R. G. (2022). Rawls, distributive justice and socioeconomic regimes. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 13(1), e1. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378671021

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022): 50 years of John Rawls' Theory of Justice Dossier - Ed. 30

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Dossiê 50 anos da Teoria da Justiça de John Rawls

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