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Review Article: Autonomy, Justice and Contractarianism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Vinit Haksar
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 487 - 509
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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References

1 A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).Google Scholar All future page references unless otherwise stated are to this book.

2 Barry, B., ‘Social Justice’, Oxford Review, V (1967), 29–52.Google Scholar

3 See my paper, ‘Rawls’ theory of justice’, Analysis, XXXII (1972), 149–53.Google Scholar My objections there against the earlier version of Rawls’ theory may apply, in part, against his present version also, if I am right in rejecting the finality condition. For, as Rawls admits (pp. 584–5), his present version retains ethical constraints.

4 See for instance, his paper ‘Constitutional Liberty and the Concept of Justice’ in Freidrich, Carl J. and Chapman, J. W., eds., Nomos VI: Justice (New York: Atherton Press, 1963).Google Scholar I have, in the paper refered to in footnote 3, discussed this version of Rawls’ argument.