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Rawls’ Theory of Justice Omitting Human Avarice and Social Conflict

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2020, (34), pp.317~346
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2020..34.013
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 14, 2020
  • Accepted : November 29, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Hyeon Sil Choi 1 Che, Jayoung 2

1동국대학교
2부산외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

Rawls's theory of justice is based on an overly unrealistic rationality. Rawls's theory of justice omits the fact that humans are the existence of endless greed that does not know satisfaction. In reality, the accumulation of unequal wealth caused by human greed can lead to a state in which it is impossible to set limits. In addition, Rolls' theory of justice ignores the reality that corruption and corruption will strike around power. He ruled out that the problem of abuse of power, which is commonly practiced by minority representatives, is in a different context from his theory of justice because it is a political domain. In the same vein, he is not preparing any countermeasures for deviating from reasonable standards or acceptable limits. This means that there is no effective countermeasure against the case where a few decision makers use the power they hold to form a corruption cartel.

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