A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society). The theory uses an updated form of Kantian philosophy and a variant form of conventional social … WebbA Theory of Justice argues in support of Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness, which commands: · equal basic rights · equality of opportunity · and raising the prospects of the least advantaged in society. To do this, Rawls employs a thought experiment called the original position.

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WebbKantian Constructivism in Ethics* Thomas E. Hill, Jr. A Theory of Justice has … WebbKant's Retributivism* Don E. Scheid Regarding criminal punishment, Immanuel Kant has always been con-sidered a retributivist; and so he is. The question is what kind of a retributivist. Commentators have routinely presented Kant's theory of punishment as an example of what I shall call "thoroughgoing" retri-butivism. iowa victims compensation

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Webbsurprisingly, perhaps, I argue that Kant’s theory of justice can help both care and liberal theories solve their respective problems. The paper is structured as follows. Section 2 argues that until we give up the assumption that good care requires only virtuous private indi-viduals, we cannot take sufficiently seriously the problems associated WebbKANT'S METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF JUSTICE 251 concerns the problem of individual freedom of choice and action under condi tions of natural or empirically given constraints.2 I shall refer to this as the conflict between freedom and nature. As a general philosophical problem this conflict forms a pervasive and recurrent theme in Kant's … iowa victim services call center