TY - JOUR
T1 - Overlapping Consensus Thin and Thick
T2 - John Rawls and Simone Weil
AU - Heifetz, Aviad
AU - Minelli, Enrico
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - John Rawls and Simone Weil presented two distinct conceptions of political justice, aimed at articulating a common ethos in an inherently heterogeneous society. The terms of the former, chiefly concerned with the distribution of primary goods, underwrite much of today's Western democracies political liberalism. The terms of the latter, chiefly concerned with the way interaction is organised in social activities in view of the body and soul's balancing pairs of needs, are less well known. We explain the sense in which the overlapping consensus in Weil's notion of political justice is “thicker”, and may thus deserve more attention – alongside that of Rawls – for substantiating a democratic ethos within political liberalism.
AB - John Rawls and Simone Weil presented two distinct conceptions of political justice, aimed at articulating a common ethos in an inherently heterogeneous society. The terms of the former, chiefly concerned with the distribution of primary goods, underwrite much of today's Western democracies political liberalism. The terms of the latter, chiefly concerned with the way interaction is organised in social activities in view of the body and soul's balancing pairs of needs, are less well known. We explain the sense in which the overlapping consensus in Weil's notion of political justice is “thicker”, and may thus deserve more attention – alongside that of Rawls – for substantiating a democratic ethos within political liberalism.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12123
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12123
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0190-0536
VL - 39
SP - 362
EP - 384
JO - Philosophical Investigations
JF - Philosophical Investigations
IS - 4
ER -