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  • 6 - On Being a “Self-Originating Source of Valid Claims”

  • from Part II - Developments between A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism
  • Edited by Paul Weithman, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Book:
    Rawls’s <i>A Theory of Justice</i> at 50
    Published online:
    20 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 109-120

  • Summary

    Rawls first introduces the idea that persons are self-originating sources of valid claims in his 1980 Dewey Lectures as a central element of what he there calls “Kantian Constructivism.” Although this got lost in Rawls’s political turn in Political Liberalism, I argue that the claim that persons are self-originating sources of claims – or, in my terms, that they share a basic second-personal authority to make claims and hold one another accountable – can do real work in grounding justice as fairness (and also “rightness as fairness”) that the Kantian Interpretation in A Theory of Justice is impotent to do. Taken on their own, the materials of the Kantian Interpretation are impotent to support anything in the distinctive conceptual territory of the right, much less, the priority of right. Only the idea that we are fundamentally accountable to one another puts us into the conceptual space of the deontic.

Rawls’s A Theory of Justice at 50
  • Edited by Paul Weithman
  • Published online:
    20 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023
  • In 1971 John Rawls's A Theory of Justice transformed twentieth-century political philosophy, and it ranks among the most influential works in the history of the subject. This volume of new essays marks the 50th anniversary of its publication with a multi-faceted exploration of Rawls's most important book. A team of distinguished contributors reflects on Rawls's achievement in essays on his relationship to modern political philosophy and 20th-century economic theory, on his Kantianism, on his transition to political liberalism, on his account of public reason and contemporary challenges to it, on his theory's implications for problems of racial justice, on democracy and its fragility, and on Rawls's enduring legacy. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars working in moral and political philosophy, political theory, legal theory, and religious ethics.