2017/11/01 by Jan Narveson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Political Philosophy and Ethics
paper · doi:10.1515/auk-2017-0021
openalex publication_date 2017/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract Justin Holt argues that the Rawlsian requirements for justice are, contrary to Rawls’ own pronouncements, better met by socialism than ‘property owning democracy’, both of them preferring both to just plain capitalism, even with a welfare state tacked on. I suggest that Rawls’s ‘requirements’ are far less clear than most think, and that the only clarified version prefers the capitalist welfare state.