现代神正论:约翰·罗尔斯与《万民法》

IF 1.3 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Louis Fletcher
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约翰·罗尔斯的《人民法》通常被解读为对“全球正义”领域的干预。在本文中,我提供了一种不同的、被广泛忽视的解释。我认为《万民法》是一种世俗的神正论。罗尔斯想要表明,历史上的“大恶”并没有通过使用一种世俗化的道德信仰形式来谴责人类,以寻找社会世界允许完美正义的可能性的迹象。我指出,这一论点与罗尔斯在1942年所写的基督教神正论有惊人的相似之处,《对罪与信仰意义的简短探讨》。也许更重要的是,正如罗尔斯自己所承认的那样,我描绘了这个救赎计划与罗尔斯的政治哲学的理想主义和道德主义方法之间的密切关系。
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A modern theodicy: John Rawls and ‘The Law of Peoples
John Rawls’ The Law of Peoples has typically been read as an intervention in the field of ‘global justice’. In this paper, I offer a different and widely overlooked interpretation. I argue that The Law of Peoples is a secular theodicy. Rawls wants to show that the 'great evils' of history do not condemn humankind by using a secularised form of moral faith to search for signs that the social world allows for the possibility of perfect justice. There are, I show, striking homologies between this argument and the Christian theodicy that Rawls wrote in 1942, A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith. Perhaps more significantly, I draw out how there is, as Rawls himself appears to acknowledge, an intimate relationship between this redemptive project and Rawls' idealistic and moralistic approach to political philosophy.
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期刊介绍: The European Journal of Political Theory provides a high profile research forum. Broad in scope and international in readership, the Journal is named after its geographical location, but is committed to advancing original debates in political theory in the widest possible sense--geographical, historical, and ideological. The Journal publishes contributions in analytic political philosophy, political theory, comparative political thought, and the history of ideas of any tradition. Work that challenges orthodoxies and disrupts entrenched debates is particularly encouraged. All research articles are subject to triple-blind peer-review by internationally renowned scholars in order to ensure the highest standards of quality and impartiality.
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