SZACUNEK DLA SAMEGO SIEBIE – DOBRO FINALNE CZY DOBRO PRYMARNE? – ROZWAŻANIA NA MARGINESIE KONCEPCJI SPRAWIEDLIWOŚCI JOHNA RAWLSA
SELF-ESTEEM – A FINAL OR PRIMARY GOOD? – CONSIDERATION ON THE JOHN RAWLS’S CONCEPT OF JUSTICE

Summary/Abstract: Non-doctrinal but political concept of good coined by John Rawls is an essential part of philosophy of consciousness. It is founded on two main ideas: rationality (Descartes, Kant) and responsibility (soundness of mind) (Habermas). This concept of good is a source for his understanding of social primary good, which is called the basis of self-esteem. He means the mutual (reciprocal) tolerance toward citizens’ plans of life. He implies that they think and act according to the principles of justice such as fairness. The principles originate from the hypothetical social contract, when people do not know their material status, their state of health nor their happiness. For Rawls, self-esteem is an effect of distribution of natural and social goods and it is, in fact, the final good. It differs from the notion of the sense of our own value. It is a part of the good of a person, who makes decisions according to special rules, called rational. The Aristotelian Principle though, explains the human motivations to activity. The Rawls’s concept of self-esteem is a modernistic, unfinished project, once vital. Its importance was broadly known everywhere but not within the countries under communist, collective utopia and it preceded the deconstruction of the idea of subjectivity derived from Enlightenment.

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