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This is not the same thing at all, and Kant was not a socialist.
by AlbertCory 2y ago
This is not the same thing at all, and Kant was not a socialist.
- zaik 2y agoRules that are fair for everyone regardless of sex, gender, class, race, religion, able-bodiedness etc? Must be socialism.
- The_Colonel 2y agoBoth a communist and a capitalist will (likely) agree with your statement, it's just that each will understand the word "fair" differently.
- AlbertCory 2y agoRawls' "thought experiment" is used to prove that all people would choose socialism. It's an explicitly political use of begging the question, as I said. Kant was a moral philosopher. There is a difference. And there's a reason why Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant never came up with Rawl's "veil of ignorance": because it is itself ignorant.
- michaelhoney 2y agoYou seem to be very sensitive to the threat of socialism. How is Rawls’ view ignorant?
- even_639765 2y agoFair rules that apply to everyone doesn't have any organized political opposition. The debate is about redistributing the fruits of labor.