Context of Justice and Right to Justification：Theoretical Reflection on the Health Care
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Kuo, Hui-Hsin
Abstract
John Rawls and the issue of health care often focus on Norman Daniels and the public health. This thesis would like to point that the background of Rawlsian and health care will raise different conceptions of equality. Otherwise, the criteria under Rawlsian will affect government’s power to classify disease and distribution of resources. I tried to point that we can discuss different conceptions of equality under variations in preferences and tastes are seen as our responsibility, but different conceptions of equality isn’t equivalent to variations in conceptions of good. According to Rawls, the fact of reasonable pluralism is the scope of public reason. Rawls presupposed primary goods in his theory, this thesis would point that Rawlsian can’t actually solve the problem of disability. In context of justice, although the primary goods’ status have moved to service for political, not for originally moral person in Kantian sense, we can still found that self-respect is the most important primary goods. From Hobbes’ self-preservation to self-respect, this argument proved Liberalism is progressive and reasonable person is the conditions for legal person to justify legal norms. In addition, the fact that variations in conceptions of good, is a history and empirical concept in a democracy society. Rainer Forst provides the right to justification is inherent in the principle of justification, which has to be recursively reconstructed, by means of argumentative threshold which are reciprocity and generality principles. What reason is a good reason can be definite and accepted intersubjectivity in every situation. This approach could be an alternative for our justification rather than presupposing a theory of goods.
Subjects
primary goods
self-respect
reasonable
public justification
morality
SDGs
Type
thesis