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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

Jon Mandle
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Albany
David A. Reidy
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Games appear in a variety of contexts within Rawls’s thought: as examples of practices in his early essay, “Two Concepts of Rules”; as contrasting with nonvoluntary systems of cooperation, and so governed by norms of fairness rather than justice, in “Justice as Fairness”; as examples of social unions in part iii of A Theory of Justice; and in the guise of game theory in the development of and argument from the “original position” in part I of Theory. This entry will briely summarize each usage and then suggest what they might have to do with one another.

In “Two Concepts of Rules” (1955), Rawls introduces the idea of a “practice”: “the speciication of a new form of activity” (CP 36) which is deined by a set of rules that are logically prior to the particular actions within it. Rawls illustrates the idea of a practice with the game of baseball (37). The rules of baseball not only regulate but make possible a series of activities like striking out or stealing a base. Rawls introduces the idea of a practice to distinguish two sorts of justiication: the justiication of a practice as a whole and the justiication of an action within a practice.

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  • Games
  • Edited by Jon Mandle, State University of New York, Albany, David A. Reidy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Book: The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
  • Online publication: 05 February 2015
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026741.084
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  • Games
  • Edited by Jon Mandle, State University of New York, Albany, David A. Reidy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Book: The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
  • Online publication: 05 February 2015
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026741.084
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  • Games
  • Edited by Jon Mandle, State University of New York, Albany, David A. Reidy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Book: The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
  • Online publication: 05 February 2015
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026741.084
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