Persons, Identity, and Political Theory by Catherine Galko Campbell

Author:Catherine Galko Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

Refutation of the Objections to the Original Position

In this section, I use the argument interpretation to show that Sandel is mistaken to think that the original position requires identity individualism or personhood individualism . Specifically, I defend Rawls from Sandel ’s claim that he “recreates in the original position the disembodied subject it resolves to avoid.”25 Sandel ’s arguments fail because they rest on misunderstandings of the original position.

Identity Objection

To begin, as explained in Chap. 3, some critics clearly take issue with the original position on metaphysical grounds. The sort of metaphysical view of personal identity with which the original position is supposed to be inconsistent is the practical-moral conception explained in the previous chapter. The identity objection explained in Chap. 3 was that

1.If persons can exist in the original position as the very persons they are, then the features that are removed in the original position are not essential to personal identity . [assumption]

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