FAIRNESS IN A DEMOCRACY: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSES BETWEEN RAWLS AND DWORKIN

• Autor(a) principal: Siqueira, Natercia Sampaio
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Pompeu, Gina Vidal Marcilio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Teorias da Justiça, da Decisão e da Argumentação Jurídica
• Texto Completo: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistateoriasjustica/article/view/712
• topic: Democracy; Fairness; John rawls; Ronald dworkin; Democracia; Equidade; John rawls; Ronald dworkin

This paper works the fairness like the major criterion to build and live politics, economy and the social relationships, and the several possibilities for its development. To do this, this work deals with two important philosophers from politics and law, that thought the justice in democracy by fairness like its principal issue: John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. In the beginning, it works the similitude between the two philosophers: the same semantic and the same importance that they give to equal liberties. After, this paper deals with the several consequences that Rawls and Dworkin attribute to fairness. In the time that Rawls understand that the fairness achieve yourself by just opportunity, Dworkin believes that for its development, is necessary the market and the neutrality of government about what is good in life. In the end, the conclusion is that both institutions are relevant to fairness; in this way, its necessary keep and observe the just opportunity, the market and the government neutrality in built a democracy.