El concepto de justiciaen John Rawls

Abstract

The article explains how Rawls emphasizes the need to construct criteria for the equitable distribution of advantages and disadvantages which come from social cooperation, in order to diminish the social and natural inequalities without impinging upon individual freedom, taking as a precondition the distribution of primary goods and rational principles which are elected from a mechanism of initial representation (original statement). Given these rawlisian postulates, this work emphasizes various critical aspects which claim that a theory of justice must contemplate not only individual rights and liberties, but also, the defence of recognition, identity, common goals and projects, aspects which exceed the idea of rational subject of liberalism and involve the notion of community, without which it is impossible to talk about justice.