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coberst
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Posted - 08/11/2004 :  04:40:24  Show Profile  Visit coberst's Homepage Send coberst a Private Message
How do we form an abstraction?

I love cats—I love chocolates—I love Mom—love is a splendid thing—love of country—love of God—I seek love—I love New York in June. If I try to abstract a set of characteristics from all these various usage of the word ‘love' I find that love is an emotion. The abstraction ‘love' has a substance and that substance is a human emotion.

The primary purpose of all social institutions is to further social justice for all citizens. What are some of the ways we use the word ‘justice'? I only seek justice. “Liberty and Justice for all”. Is it justice? Did he receive justice? What substance has the word ‘justice' when abstracted from a particular instance? It appears to me that Rawls concludes that the abstraction ‘justice' has a substance and that substance is fairness.

John Rawls in “A Theory of Justice” attempts to accentuate and define the nature of ‘justice as fairness'.

Rawls develops the concept ‘veil of ignorance' as a means to develop the abstract substance of justice. From this beginning he developed the fundamental principles of social justice. Under the veil of ignorance there exists no self-interest there exists only common interest because all under the veil are ignorant of any individual reality i.e. social position, wealth, intelligence etc.

Rawls empathizes, through the veiled eyes of the hypothetical Everywo/man, the rational choices for the first principles of justice.

FIRST PRINCIPLE
“Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all.”

SECOND PRINCIPLE
“Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged, consistent with the just savings principle, and (b) attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity.”

Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist

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Posted - 08/11/2004 :  06:15:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Cuneiformist a Private Message
God DAMN I hate philosophy! Especially faux-philosophy like this!
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sweet
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Posted - 08/11/2004 :  16:03:18   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send sweet a Private Message
well, since I believe it to be copied more or less from a text (sans citation) It isn't faux philosophy, but it seems to lack a point.

Poor cuneiformist here is a "philosophical" link you might actually enjoy...http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/python.htm
long and rambling, but pokes fun at all of us philosophers and pseudo philosphers.
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