Is the Basic Structure Basic?
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Description
This essay focuses on Cohen’s recent arguments for extending the scope of justice beyond Rawls’s formulation. It argues for the merits of Rawls’s argument that the primary subject of justice should be restricted to social institutions. It contends that whether or not one agrees with Rawls’s view of what should count as the subject of justice, Cohen is wrong to understand the upshot of this to be either a paltry measure of redistribution or the accommodation of the untrammelled pursuit of selfish interests.
Source Publication
The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G.A. Cohen
Source Editors/Authors
Christine Sypnowich
Publication Date
2006
Recommended Citation
Scheffler, Samuel, "Is the Basic Structure Basic?" (2006). Faculty Chapters. 1781.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1781
