The notion of freedom in John Rawls

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  • Carlos Ignacio Massini Correas Author

Abstract

Different meanings exist for the concept of freedom in the work of Rawls. Freedom as exemption of ties or absence of restrictions, freedom as an assembly of rights and duties defined by the institutions whose purpose is to guarantee to the subjects the possibility of choosing their own way of life and the values that orient their life, considering the plurality of the conceptions of good. From this concept, Rawls claims the principIe according to which inequalities are justified when they benefit the most underprivileged. The theory of freedom is referred to its merely outer conception, that is not properly a quality of the will, but it mainly talks about the external performance of it, whith the consequence of the negation of free will. The author criticizes Rawls for not accurately justifing the limits of freedom: the principIe according to which freedom is limited by not interfering with the freedom or project of life of others. The author says that Rawls does not solve neither the
dilemmas supposed by the necessary coordination of subjective goods in order to guarantee that all subjects yield part of their interests or their freedom, nor a system in which it is possible the exercise of freedom by the most underprivileged. Finally, the work of Rawls is identified with the modern paradigm of freedom, that establishes the absolute and free autonomy without intrinsic order.

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Author Biography

Carlos Ignacio Massini Correas

Abogado por la Universidad de Mendoza y Doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas por la misma Universidad, con una tesis sobre el pensamiento iusfilosófico marxista, calificada de sobresaliente y recomendada su publicación. Realizó estudios en París bajo la dirección de Michel Villey y Georges Kalinowski. Designado profesor Titular de Teoría del Estado en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad de Mendoza. Ha dictado seminarios, cursos y conferencias en varias universidades, entre ellas, en el seminario de Filosofía del Derecho de la Universidad de París, en la Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro, en la Universidad de los Andes de Santiago de Chile, en la Universidad de Valparaíso y en la Universidad de Navarra. Ha publicado más de ochenta artículos de filosofía jurídica, entre otros: Sapientia, El Derecho, La Ley, Ethos eIdearium de la Argentina. También ha publicado diecisiete libros sobre temas de filosofía jurídica y política: Ensayo crítico sobre el pensamiento filosófico-jurídico en la Edad Moderna,La función judicial, El derecho, los derechos humanos y el valor del derecho, Ley y derecho según Georges Kalinowski, Los Derechos humanos, paradoja de nuestro tiempo, Reflexiones sobre el socialismo liberal, Ecología y Filosofía, En torno ala democracia, Filosofía del derecho. El derecho y los derechos humanos. Actualmente integra las comisiones asesoras del CONICET, en materia de filosofía.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (1999)

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Filosofía

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