John Rawls: theory of justice and Communitarianism criticisms

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the John Rawls's theory of justice as fairness developed in A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, focusing on its model of complementarity between the deontological and the teleological with procedural and substantive, seeking to answer some of criticisms raised by the authors, communitarian and Rawlsian theory of justice for trying to point out their similarities. Natural of the criticisms of the communitarian theory of justice as fairness, analyze the aspects limited in the model teleological ethics, focus the fundamental relationship between the procedural and substantive, and finally present the answers to communitarian criticisms of Rawls, emphasizing the specificity of his conception of justice.