Hayekian Worries on Rawls’s Political Justification of "Justice as Fairness"

VENEZIA, LUCIANO

Buenos Aires

Seminario; Seminario de Filosofía Jurídica y Política; 2008

Fundación Friedrich Hayek

In this paper, I will use Friedrich A Hayek’s skeptical results on complexity to pose some difficulties for Rawls’s argument for his two principles of justice. Since Rawls developed “justice as fairness” as a form of political liberalism, numerous writers have claimed that his argument for the two principles of justice does not satisfy the core features of a political conception of justice. The debate has been primarily concerned with the characterization of the basic aspects of reasonable persons and the way their essential features are introduced within the argument for the two principles of justice.But these are not the only worrisome characteristics of Rawls’s theory. There are Hayekian worries we can push.