Bibliographic record
Abstract
The general aim of this paper is to elaborate on the political philosophy of John Rawls, specifically his concepts such as the original position, the veil of ignorance, and the difference principle.In clarifying these concepts, it will be shown why Rawls has been so influential in the field of political philosophy.The specific aim of this paper, though, is to critique his theory of justice, often termed "justice as fairness," as insufficient in dealing with gender inequality in society, such as the exploitation of women within the institution of the family.In doing so, a paradox will be presented, showing Rawls' continual inability to back his claim that the principles of justice do not apply to the family, but that the family is imperative in cultivating one's sense of justice.Realizing this, it will be argued that it is unjust for Rawls' theory of justice to be applied in a society that believes in gender equality, as it is in opposition to feminist scholarship.John Rawls' A Theory of Justice is often considered the most important work of political philosophy of the twentieth century.A large part of this reason is because of the influence it has had on the thought of other political theorists.This influence, in many cases, is not that of praise; many thinkers have come to criticize Rawls.This paper will focus on one of these major criticisms, this being the failure to account for the subordination of women in society, specifically in Rawls' lack of acknowledgment of the institution of the family.It will be argued, then, that although Rawls made significant progress in political philosophy, his theory should not be considered a complete theory of justice when it possesses such a flaw.First, Rawls' thought will be praised, largely by discussing the originality of A Theory of Justice, notably in introducing the concept of the original position, the veil of ignorance, and the difference principle.Second, Rawls' thought that the principles of justice only apply to the basic structure of society will be acknowledged, as well as an argument against distributive justice as being inefficient to deal with issues of feminism.This will lead, lastly, to the feminist thought that "the personal is political," wherein there will be a thorough discussion in regards to Rawls' brief thoughts towards the family and how he claims his principles of justice do not apply to it, as well as the
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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