Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

Cohen’s critique of Rawls and other “constructivists” consists in arguing that their reasoning is contaminated with concerns other than justice. Rawls, perhaps unbeknownst to himself, is interested not in justice per se but in what kind of society we want to live in, a question that he proposes to settle by means of deliberation in [...]

For condemnation it is violence or physical force. For rehabilitation it is temptation, the idea being that if a person overcomes these temptations, then he will improve spiritually. For deterrence it is deception, for if you were already stronger than the person being deterred, then you would need to do nothing special to deter him; [...]