A concepção de pessoa ético-política em Rawls

Abstract

The objective of this work is to research the relevance of the concept of ethical-political person in the structure of Rawls’s thought. In the XX century, John Rawls (1921-2002) has a significant importance for the political philosophy. The main subject of this investigation is to comprehend the way how the conception of people contributes effectively for the defense of original position and the justice principles, making in the possible to defend the human rights in the perspective on the organization from a well-ordered society under the protection of liberty and equality. So construed, political philosophy is a special field of inquiry. This investigation intends to provide a plausible reading of John Rawls’ books from the perspective that the most important political objective was the concept of “person”. Any successive development of the person conception, Rawls argues, presupposes the fundamental right to subsistence, which all persons clain as a natural right. Rawls employs this general principle as a basis to understand what freedom and democracy are. The increasing intensification of cooperation among persons was one of the main support tha Rawls influenced the civil society, and the reflections to the process of establishing a new subject for the political philosophy.