General will, human nature and democratic society. John Rawls’s Appropriation of Rousseau

Authors

  • Denilson Luis Werle Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dp.v7i4.20168

Keywords:

John Rawls, Rousseau, the general will, human nature, public reason and justice

Abstract

The paper presents an interpretation made by Rawls of Rousseau's work,highlighting the similarities between Rousseau and the central thesis of the traditionof political liberalism: the primacy of justice over the good. The articlepresented the Rawls's analysis of two concepts that approach Rousseau to the political liberalism: the normative conception of human nature and the concept ofgeneral will, interpreted as a deliberative public reason.

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Published

2010-12-10

How to Cite

Werle, D. L. (2010). General will, human nature and democratic society. John Rawls’s Appropriation of Rousseau. DoisPontos, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.5380/dp.v7i4.20168

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Vol. 7 No. 4 (2010): *Special* Contemporary Appropriations of the Classics of Political Philosophy

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