The fool and the franchiser: formal justice in the political theories of Hobbes and Rawls

Thomas Hobbes and John Rawls are usually portrayed in antagonistic terms. While Hobbes, one of the first scholars to translate Thucydides, is often held to be an archetypal realist, Rawls, a self-proclaimed follower of Kant, is frequently said to argue from an explicit normative position. In this pa...

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Main Author: Jan Niklas Rolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2016-03-01
Series:Ethics & Global Politics
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Online Access:http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/30042/45395