The estranged self : alienation, personhood and politics in John Rawls

This paper argues that John Rawls presents two conflicting notions of the self in his theory of justice, one political, the other metaphysical. Though Rawls claims that his theory of justice utilizes and protects his political notion of the self, his work in fact relies upon the metaphysical pers...

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Main Author: Philips, Menaka
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17741