Difficulties in nurturing a sense of justice

IF 1.1 3区 哲学 Q3 ETHICS
Hannes Kuch
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The paper analyzes Rawls's moral psychology and the claim that a just society must foster a sufficiently strong sense of justice. When Rawls investigates the development of the sense of justice under a just basic structure, he tacitly narrows down the focus: he only demonstrates the development of a sense of justice on the premise that all members of society are already in possession of a full-fledged sense of justice, save the one individual under investigation. This begs the question, largely presupposing what needs to be explained, namely, how citizens at large develop a sense of justice. Rawls's narrowing of perspective leads to distortions in the analysis of stability, particularly with regard to a property-owning democracy. However, in lesser known parts of his work, Rawls offers clues for a more plausible account. Here, the idea is that institutions must be structured such that they enable all of us to nurture the sense of justice of each of us. With this idea of collective self-transformation in place, it becomes clear that economic institutions must be broadly democratized because of their profound educational role. Thus, the choice between a property-owning democracy and liberal socialism falls more strongly upon the latter.

培养正义感的困难
本文分析了罗尔斯的道德心理学以及正义社会必须培养足够强烈的正义感这一主张。当罗尔斯研究公正的基本结构下正义感的发展时,他默许地缩小了关注的焦点:他只证明了正义感的发展,前提是除了被研究的个人之外,所有社会成员都已经拥有了充分的正义感。这就提出了一个问题,在很大程度上预设了需要解释的内容,即广大公民如何发展正义感。罗尔斯对视角的狭隘导致了对稳定性分析的扭曲,尤其是对财产所有制民主的分析。然而,在罗尔斯著作中鲜为人知的部分,他提供了更合理的解释的线索。这里的观点是,制度的结构必须使我们所有人都能培养我们每个人的正义感。有了这种集体自我改造的思想,经济制度显然必须广泛民主化,因为它们具有深刻的教育作用。因此,在财产所有制民主与自由社会主义之间,后者的选择更为重要。
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