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Desert, Equality and Injustice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Les Holborow
Affiliation:
University of Queensland

Extract

John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (Oxford, 1972) is an extremely long and elaborate work. But despite the length and the elaboration there is at the heart of the work a crucial set of unargued assumptions which need to be challenged. When this is done we are in a position to provide additional support for the critical conclusions of several other commentators who concentrate on other features of Rawls's system.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1975

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