Archive for: political liberalism

Abstract: Review. In his book A Theory of Justice published in 1971, J. Rawls associates his difference principle with the concept of fraternity, drawing attention to the revolutionary triplet of 1789, “Liberty, equality, fraternity”. Through the difference principle Rawls attempts to think rationally about fraternity, seeing it as something intrinsic to political processes, rather than “external” to them. The author traces […]