John Rawls: construtivismo político e justificação coerentista

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Elnora Maria Gondim
• Orientador(a): Oliveira Junior, Nythamar Hilario Fernandes de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: FILOSOFIA; FILOSOFIA POLÍTICA; RAWLS, JOHN - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; JUSTIFICAÇÃO (FILOSOFIA); CONSTRUTIVISMO
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3553

This present study aims to demonstrate how the actual justification of Rawls’s theory is the kind of emerging coherentism, therefore, that which is possible without previous assumption of an agreement on specific social norms. Although Rawls does not mention in any of his manuscripts such stance, it is possible to find the aspect of the coherentism justification in his theory. This is due to the justification criteria found adjacent to the justice construction such as the fairness expressed by the following ideas: (1) only beliefs can justify other beliefs, and nothing further can contribute to a justification, (2) all justified beliefs depend on other beliefs for their justification. Thus, the justification for the Rawlsian theory can be considered as coherentism because, in general, the framework can be characterized as the concept that beliefs can only be justified by their relations with other beliefs within the same system and, therefore, as for Rawls, there is no basic or foundational belief, this would allow a coherentism justification to his theory. The Harvard professor presented this issue in his manuscripts that antagonized the moderated foundational style by (1) the wide reflective method, (2) to the non-foundational style translated by non-intuitionist and non-utilitarian aspect of his works, (3) the notion of original position, and (4) of his own theoretical approach in relation to the methodological and content aspects related to his constructivism.