Keyword

original position

Description: A thought experiment in Rawlsian political philosophy in which people choose principles of justice without knowing their own social position.

Primary topic: Political Philosophy and Ethics (82%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q17149311

OpenAlex ID: keywords/original-position

A theory of justice original edition

· Rawls, John 1921-2002 · 24,864

A Theory of Justice

1971 · John Rawls · Princeton University Press eBooks · 9,443

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

2002 · Thaddeus Metz, John Rawls, et al. · The Philosophical Review · 3,570

The Idea of Public Reason Revisited

1997 · John Rawls · The University of Chicago Law Review · 1,369

Theories of Justice

1989 · Brian Barry · University of California Press eBooks · 1,095

Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls's Theory

1975 · John C. Harsanyi · American Political Science Review · 640

Justice as fairness: a restatement

2001 · Choice Reviews Online · 576

Natural Justice

2005 · Ken Binmore · 466

John Rawls and the Search for StabilityA Theory of Justice. John RawlsPolitical Liberalism. John Rawls

1995 · Brian Barry · Ethics · 460

Why Political Liberalism?

2011 · Paul Weithman · Oxford University Press eBooks · 382

The Cambridge companion to Rawls

2003 · Choice Reviews Online · 374

Justification and Application

2011 · Jørgen Pedersen · Philosophy of the Social Sciences · 318

John Rawls and the Social Minimum

1986 · JEREMY WALDRON · Journal of Applied Philosophy · 313

Rawls' Theory of Justice--I

1973 · R. M. Hare, John Rawls · The Philosophical Quarterly · 313

Rawls' Theory of Justice--II

1973 · R. M. Hare, John Rawls · The Philosophical Quarterly · 309

The Original Position

1973 · Ronald Dworkin · The University of Chicago Law Review · 304

Rawls on Justification

2002 · T. M. Scanlon · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 289

Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance

2008 · Andrew Robinson · Contemporary Political Theory · 283

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Rawls, Justice in the Family and Justice of the Family

1998 · Veronique Munoz-Darde · The Philosophical Quarterly · 268

Rawls's Argument from Political Stability

1994 · George Klosko · Columbia Law Review · 264

Reply to Alexander and Musgrave

1974 · John Rawls · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 263

The Reasons we can Share: An Attack on the Distinction between Agent-Relative and Agent-Neutral Values

1993 · Christine M. Korsgaard · Social Philosophy and Policy · 257

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The Stability Problem in Political Liberalism

1994 · Thomas E. Hill · Pacific philosophical quarterly · 242

Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth: A Deconstructive Perspective

2012 · Miriam Bankovsky · 229

Laboratory Results on Rawls's Distributive Justice

1987 · Norman Frohlich, Joe A. Oppenheimer, et al. · British Journal of Political Science · 228

Works count: 2,355

Citation count: 56,180