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- Title
The Intergenerational Original Position.
- Authors
Finneron-Burns, Elizabeth
- Abstract
I evaluate the mechanism Rawls uses to elicit his just savings principle. My analysis focuses on his account of membership in the original position because who is in the original position and what they know has important consequences for the rest of Rawls's theory of intergenerational justice. I consider three options: present time of entry (PTE), actual people from various generations, and all possible people. However, I will argue that Rawls is ultimately not successful since there is no plausible composition of the original position that avoids the non-identity problem and generates acceptable moral principles without logical contradictions or inconsistencies with the rest of his theory of justice.
- Subjects
INTERGENERATIONAL relations &; ethics; JUSTICE; RAWLS, John, 1921-2002; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); MEMBERSHIP
- Publication
Social Theory & Practice, 2017, Vol 43, Issue 4, p805
- ISSN
0037-802X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/soctheorpract201711123