Rawls, teoria ideal e a relevância do contexto

Evandro Barbosa; Thaís Alves Costa

doi:10.47456/sofia.v14i2.51017

Authors

Evandro Barbosa UFPel - Universidade Federal de Pelotas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5695-3746
Thaís Alves Costa UFPel - Universidade Federal de Pelotas / Unochapecó https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1274-0431

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47456/sofia.v14i2.51017

Keywords:

ideal theory, non-ideal theory, context, justice

Abstract

The article investigates how John Rawls’s theory of justice both accommodates and limits the relevance of context within his account of justice as fairness, drawing on the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory. First, we reconstruct the ideal dimension of the Rawlsian framework, with emphasis on the circumstances of justice, the moral psychology of agents, and the notion of the quasi-stability of a well-ordered society. We then offer an account of these non-ideal circumstances as a kind of challenging context that serves as a test for the scope of ideal theories of justice. Engaging with the debate on contextualism in justice, and in particular with so-called iterative contextualism, the article defends a more open reading of Rawls’s theory, one that can enter into dialogue with this kind of approach without abandoning the normative core of his proposal as presented in the ideal part of his theory.

Author Biographies

Evandro Barbosa, UFPel - Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Professor nos Programas de Graduação e Pós-Graduação em Filosofia na Universidade Federal de Pelotas, com pesquisa nas áreas de Ética e Filosofia Política. Pesquisador PQ2/CNPq.
Thaís Alves Costa, UFPel - Universidade Federal de Pelotas / Unochapecó

Pós-Doutoranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito na Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó, com pesquisa nas áreas de Filosofia Política, Direito e Pensamento Econômico. Bolsista FAPESC.

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