Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations for Rawls’s texts
- Introduction
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- 195 Sandel, Michael
- 196 Scanlon, T. M.
- 197 Self-interest
- 198 Self-respect
- 199 Sen, Amartya
- 200 Sense of justice
- 201 Sidgwick, Henry
- 202 Sin
- 203 Social choice theory
- 204 Social contract
- 205 Social minimum
- 206 Social union
- 207 Socialism
- 208 Society of peoples
- 209 Soper, Philip
- 210 Sovereignty
- 211 Stability
- 212 Statesman and duty of statesmanship
- 213 Strains of commitment
- 214 Supreme Court and judicial review
- T
- U
- W
- Bibliography
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations for Rawls’s texts
- Introduction
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- 195 Sandel, Michael
- 196 Scanlon, T. M.
- 197 Self-interest
- 198 Self-respect
- 199 Sen, Amartya
- 200 Sense of justice
- 201 Sidgwick, Henry
- 202 Sin
- 203 Social choice theory
- 204 Social contract
- 205 Social minimum
- 206 Social union
- 207 Socialism
- 208 Society of peoples
- 209 Soper, Philip
- 210 Sovereignty
- 211 Stability
- 212 Statesman and duty of statesmanship
- 213 Strains of commitment
- 214 Supreme Court and judicial review
- T
- U
- W
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Rawls’s undergraduate thesis at Princeton dealt primarily with the concepts of sin and faith. The former was defined as the repudiation and destruction of community, whereas the latter was defined as the affirmation and enhancing of community. The sort of relations that were communal were those between persons (including God as personal), relations that were natural were those between a person and an object, and relations that were causal were those between objects (BIMSF 113–114, 122, 193).
Egoism was seen as a type of sin wherein communal relations were turned into natural relations (e.g., when people were treated as objects). Egotism (with a “t”) was a more basic type of sin that consisted in self-love. In fact, egoism was claimed to be an external manifestation of egotism such that the latter was really the master sin (BIMSF 122–123, 193, 203, 209, 211). Whereas egoism fails to embrace personal relations and settles for natural relations, egotism embraces personal relations only to destroy them from within.
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- The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon , pp. 777 - 778Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014