Revisiting Rawls:A Theory of Justice in the light of Levi's theory of decision

Theoria 70 (1):3-21 (2004)
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The present paper revisits the issue of rational decision making in John Rawls' original position. Drawing on Isaac Levi's theory of decision, I discuss how we can defend Rawls against John C. Harsanyi's charge that maximin reasoning in the original position is irrational. The discussion suggests that systematic application of Levi's theory is likely to have important consequences for ethics and political theory as well as for public policy.

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10.1111/j.1755-2567.2004.tb00977.x

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A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition.John Rawls - 1999 - Harvard University Press.
Contractualism and utilitarianism.Thomas M. Scanlon - 1982 - In Amartya Kumar Sen & Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (eds.), Utilitarianism and Beyond. Cambridge University Press. pp. 103--128.

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