The savings problem in the original position: assessing and revising a model |
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Authors: | Eric Brandstedt |
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Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UKe.brandstedt@lse.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | AbstractThe common conception of justice as reciprocity seemingly is inapplicable to relations between non-overlapping generations. This is a challenge also to John Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness. This text responds to this by way of reinterpreting and developing Rawls’s theory. First, by examining the original position as a model, some revisions of it are shown to be wanting. Second, by drawing on the methodology of constructivism, an alternative solution is proposed: an amendment to the primary goods named ‘sustainability of values’. This revised original position lends support to intergenerational justice as fairness. |
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Keywords: | Intergenerational justice fairness the original position models Rawls constructivism sustainability of values |
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