Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations for Rawls’s texts
- Introduction
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- 174 Race
- 175 Rational choice theory
- 176 Rational intuitionism
- 177 Realistic utopia
- 178 The reasonable and the rational
- 179 Reasonable hope
- 180 Reasonable pluralism
- 181 Reciprocity
- 182 Reconciliation
- 183 Redress, principle of
- 184 Relective equilibrium
- 185 Religion
- 186 Respect for persons
- 187 Right: concept of, and formal constraints of
- 188 Rights, constitutional
- 189 Rights, moral and legal
- 190 Rorty, Richard
- 191 Ross, W. D.
- 192 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- 193 Rule of law
- 194 Rules (two concepts of)
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Bibliography
- Index
192 - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations for Rawls’s texts
- Introduction
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- 174 Race
- 175 Rational choice theory
- 176 Rational intuitionism
- 177 Realistic utopia
- 178 The reasonable and the rational
- 179 Reasonable hope
- 180 Reasonable pluralism
- 181 Reciprocity
- 182 Reconciliation
- 183 Redress, principle of
- 184 Relective equilibrium
- 185 Religion
- 186 Respect for persons
- 187 Right: concept of, and formal constraints of
- 188 Rights, constitutional
- 189 Rights, moral and legal
- 190 Rorty, Richard
- 191 Ross, W. D.
- 192 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- 193 Rule of law
- 194 Rules (two concepts of)
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) occupies a prominent place in the Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy. Rawls there often refers to his own thought and to the ways in which it was shaped by his engagement with Rousseau. Indeed, the influence of Rousseau on Rawls is extensive and yet for the most part unappreciated by historians of political thought. There are two important and related ways in which Rawls’s theory can be thought of as Rousseauian: (1) like Rousseau, Rawls believes that persons have a natural psychological need for recognition and for self-respect, that the denial of the former negates the possibility of the latter, and that these psychological needs are most effectively satisfied by egalitarian political institutions. And (2) like Rousseau, Rawls thinks that even the best-designed set of institutions must be supplemented by civic virtue; not the immersive patriotic virtue of the ancients, of course, but a modern, pluralism-compatible kind of virtue, the kind of virtue that conscientiously privileges the common good of the political community over the inevitable and ineradicable factional interests present within it.
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- The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon , pp. 741 - 744Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014