EL ESCALOFRIANTE JOVEN RAWLS

Hay muy pocos hilos conductores entre este joven Rawls y el posterior. Nagel señala la enorme similitud entre el tratamiento del mérito moral en este escrito y en la Teoría de la Justicia.
Dice el joven Rawls, refiréndose a quien confunde su supuesto mérito con lo que en realidad es un don divino:
"The more he examines his life, the more he looks into himself with complete honesty, the more clearly he perceives that what he has is a gift. Suppose he was an upright man in the eyes of society, then he will now say to himself: “So you were an educated man, yes, but who paid for your education; so you were a good man and upright, yes, but who taught you your good maners and so provided you with good fortune that you did not need to steal; so you were a man of a loving disposition and not like the hard-hearted, yes, but who raised you in a good family, who showed you care and affection when you were young so that you would grow up to appreciate kindness — must you not admit that what you have, you have received? Then be thankful and cease your boasting.” Thus there is no man so upright that the Word of God beside his goodness will not condemn. There is no goodness that beside God’s goodness does not become a “filthy rag.” (239-40)".
Nagel también alude al rechazo del joven Rawls al contractualismo hobbesiano como otro rasgo de continuidad.
Yo agregaría que hay en esta tesis de estudiante un embrión del enfoque metaético del Rawls posterior, en particular en su rechazo a la idea de que la argumentación filosófico-moral debe seguir un modelo deductivo:
Yo agregaría que hay en esta tesis de estudiante un embrión del enfoque metaético del Rawls posterior, en particular en su rechazo a la idea de que la argumentación filosófico-moral debe seguir un modelo deductivo:
"There are not postulates in the sense in which the term is used in logic, and therefore we are not engaged in a deductive system" (113)
El ensayo final "On my religion" es un relato del rol de la religiosidad a lo largo de su vida, y una defensa de la necesidad de separar las esferas de la religión y del pensamiento político.
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