dc.contributor.author | Papastephanou, Marianna | en |
dc.creator | Papastephanou, Marianna | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-27T10:42:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-27T10:42:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/38443 | |
dc.description.abstract | Rawls's recent modification of his theory of justice claims that political liberalism is free-standing and "falls under the category of the political. It works entirely within that domain and does not rely on anything outside it." In this article I pursue the metatheoretical goal of obtaining insight into the anthropological assumptions that have remained so far unacknowledged by Rawls and critics alike. My argument is that political liberalism has a dependence on comprehensive liberalism and its conception of a self-serving subjectivity that is far more binding as well as undesirable than it has been so far acknowledged. I proceed with a heuristic approach that introduces us to the possibility that political liberalism presupposes tacitly the Occidental metanarrative of reason harnessing rampant self-interest and subordinating it to a higher-order interest. As the presuppositions of political liberalism emerge, I draw from the debate between Rawls and Habermas in order to illustrate my argument for the existence of a dependence on these presuppositions. I outline some implications of the anthropological basis of political liberalism and conclude by exemplifying them with reference to Rawls's comments on the division of a cake. | en |
dc.source | Human Studies | en |
dc.source.uri | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-4644306292&doi=10.1023%2fB%3aHUMA.0000042128.34634.b6&partnerID=40&md5=232caf59665acc7fb37d32d9ca121d65 | |
dc.title | The implicit assumptions of dividing a cake: Political or comprehensive | en |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1023/B:HUMA.0000042128.34634.b6 | |
dc.description.volume | 27 | |
dc.description.issue | 3 | |
dc.description.startingpage | 307 | |
dc.description.endingpage | 334 | |
dc.author.faculty | Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / Faculty of Social Sciences and Education | |
dc.author.department | Τμήμα Επιστημών της Αγωγής / Department of Education | |
dc.type.uhtype | Article | en |
dc.description.notes | Cited By :3 | en |
dc.source.abbreviation | Hum.Stud. | |
dc.source.other | Scopus | en |
dc.contributor.orcid | Papastephanou, Marianna [0000-0002-7304-9249] | |
dc.gnosis.orcid | 0000-0002-7304-9249 | |