Em Uma teoria da justiça, John Rawls desenvolve os principais conceitos de sua concepção justiça conhecida como “justiça equidade”. Nosso foco é o aspecto distributivo desta concepção. O presente artigo procura mostrar características definidoras uma sociedade organizada conforme as demandas dos dois princípios rawlsianos. Para tanto, exploramos aspectos democracia cidadãos-proprietários e do s...

Justice, in the sense of fair adjudication between conflicting claims, is held to be relevant to a wide range of issues in medical ethics. Several differing concepts of justice are briefly described, including Aristotle's formal principle of justice, libertarian theories, utilitarian theories, Marxist theories, the theory of John Rawls, and the view--held, for example, by W.D. Ross--that justi...

My interest is in the application of Rawls’ principles of distributive justice to the allocation of health care. In developing an interpretation of those principles I encountered the problem I present below. Although this issue is problematic for Rawlsian theories, it also has implications for any distributive theory that measures the impact of health care distribution via the mechanism of incr...

In this paper I offer a conceptual characterization of the idea “sense justice” as suitable motivational basis for respect principles justice in force given society, and argue that similar concern can be found not only John Rawls, who expressely talks about notion, but also Aristotle. My main contention is both thinkers invite readers to conceive sense an attitude admitting various degrees, ran...