Responsibility)

JKSCHW at aol.com JKSCHW at aol.com
Tue Jan 25 19:12:45 PST 2000


In a message dated 00-01-25 19:06:28 EST, you write:

<< Rawls' position as I recall is that laws are justified in utilitarian terms but

the particular decision of a judge should be based upon the retributive view

. . .

(See Rawls' TWO CONCEPTS OF RULES) >>

This is pre-Rawls Rawls, a 1955 paper, well antedating the (decidedly non-utilitarian work that makes Rawls a really major thinker.

--jks



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