Rawls on Justice
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Rawls' Question: What Is the State?
The social contract tradition includes people like Rousseau, not the Rousseau of the discourse I talked about. It also includes that it's fringes people like Hobbes trying to construct an answer to the question, what is the state? You need to find a way of treating people as people as ends and not means, but also finding the grounds for agreement," he says.
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