Hayek and Rawls’s theories of justice: divergences and convergences beyond mere terminology

• Autor(a) principal: de Quadros, Matheus
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mises
• Texto Completo: https://revistamises.org.br/misesjournal/article/view/1210
• topic: Justiça social; Friedrich Hayek; John Rawls; teoria da justiça; justiça como equidade.; Social justice; Friedrich Hayek; John Rawls; theory of justice; justice as fairness; Justicia social; Friedrich Hayek; John Rawls; teoría de la justicia; justicia como equidad

The present article aims to compare the theories of justice proposed by Friedrich Hayek and John Rawls, attempting to analyze Hayek´s curious assertion that the difference between authors would be more on terminology than content. To do this, it will verify indirect bibliographic documentation as a way of understanding the convergences and divergences between the authors, tracing the general concepts of both theories and aiming at the ideological parallels of both authors. The article concludes that the authors, although liberals who have relied on similar sources in their formation, arrive at completely different conclusions in their theories of justice, which is explained by diverse conceptual notions and theoretical endsbetween the authors, despite several methodological convergences that motivated Hayek’s assertion in the first place.