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Comment in 150 words : “Original position”

  • UPSC 2013
  • 10 marks
  • Justice

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The original position is the contractual device of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971): a hypothetical initial situation of equality in which parties choose principles for the basic structure of society. It plays the role the state of nature played for the classical contractarians, though Rawls generalises John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant…

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  • A device of representation, not an event
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