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Show Chapter X. Rawls's Instrumentalism 438 The Original PositionchoosesTwo Principles of Justice distribute Primary Goods The Parties: -instrumentally rational - want to advance CG in WOS - mutually disinterested - not envious - constrained by veil of ignorance - capacity for a sense of justice (1) Millian Principle rights, liberties, self-respect powers, opportunities income, wealth (2a) Fair Opportunity (2b) Difference Principle structure The OP Itself: - subjective circumstances of justice - objective circumstances of justice within The Well-Ordered Society VS. Classical Utilitarianism Marxism Perfectionism Check all against Commonsense Moral Intuitions Figure 14. Wide Reflective Equilibrium The analogy with scientific procedure enables us to clarify what is at stake. In the process of constructing a scientific theory, scientists are influenced by competing hypotheses and explanations to make adjustments and revisions both to the statement of their own and to the predictions they expect it to yield. But both hypothesis and predictions are also conditioned by a scientist's epistemic intuitions about what is physically possible and likely under the circumstances. If a hypothesis entails predictions that are, in that scientist's judgment, highly unlikely to occur, this undermines the plausibility of the hypothesis in favor of competing ones, before the experiments have even been performed. © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin |
