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Critique Of Rawl’s Doctrine

Summary/Abstract: The doctrine of John Rawls has aroused the attention of the scientific public for more than forty years. A Theory of Justice brought out a special way of looking at the structure of the liberal-democratic societies. It offers not only new knowledge but also the methods and techniques to reach them. As with any successful theory, this one too was met with acclaim but criticism as well . What unites both approaches to Rawls’s learning is a rational foundation of theoretical positions regardless of the epistemological outcomes. Communitarians like Sandel and Volzer were the sharpest critics of the liberal views of John Rawls. Libertianism of M. Nozick was practically built on the criticism of Rawls’s key ideas. Rawls’s scientific reputation was not built on his work only but also on the thinkers who mostly criticized his ideas. And that was a success in itself. Rawls became especially popular in the post-socialist countries after the radical change of the social system. Criticism of Rawls’s learning was related to its key parts: the theory of justice as fairness, veil of ignorance technique, the two principles of justice, the relationship between the individual and the community, social relations and the rule of law, freedom and equality, questions of morality, constructivism and so on. The author of this paper has tried to present and analyze the basic theoretical objections to the attitudes of John Rawls.

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