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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
Rawls’s undergraduate thesis at Princeton dealt primarily with the concepts of sin and faith. The former was defined as the repudiation and destruction of community, whereas the latter was defined as the affirmation and enhancing of community. The sort of relations that were communal were those between persons (including God as personal), relations that were natural were those between a person and an object, and relations that were causal were those between objects (BIMSF 113–114, 122, 193).
Egoism was seen as a type of sin wherein communal relations were turned into natural relations (e.g., when people were treated as objects). Egotism (with a “t”) was a more basic type of sin that consisted in self-love. In fact, egoism was claimed to be an external manifestation of egotism such that the latter was really the master sin (BIMSF 122–123, 193, 203, 209, 211). Whereas egoism fails to embrace personal relations and settles for natural relations, egotism embraces personal relations only to destroy them from within.
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