Episode 256: The Right to Punish?
Very Bad Wizards
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Rawls Isn't Saying That Egoism Is What Rationality Is
I'm just still not quite sure whether this it's necessary for his argument. But like we can move on. I just wonder if there if there were a society where everybody had this conception of rationality, say, suppose that there was just like a bunch of borgie people and they were all like, yeah, this is totally what rationality is. Like I think he thinks that is our society. No, because he thinks that people aren't actually endorsing this kind of social contract. He thinks that of course we're going to think that this is the one true rationality because we're products of the capitalist culture that we grow up in.
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