I PRINCÌPI DI GIUSTIZIA DI RAWLS RIVISITATI. UNA NOTA

This note emphasizes how Chandler’s recent contribution, “Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society” has a highly ambitious goal, marked by a significant dose of utopia, but certainly worthy of attention as an alternative to the progressive decline of liberal democracies. Chandler proposes a highly ambitious yet concrete agenda for achieving a more just society. He retraces Rawls’s idea of an “ideal” society in which fundamental personal and collective freedoms are assured. Chandler proposes a highly ambitious yet concrete agenda for achieving a more just society. He retraces Rawls’s idea of an “ideal” society in which fundamental personal and collective freedoms are assured. He then discusses the policies that would be necessary to achieve these goals. The proposed agenda is broad and varied: from education to electoral laws, from parental leave to universal basic income, from a minimum wage to worker participation in corporate governance, from taxation of high net wealth to limits on carbon emissions. Chandler’s conclusion is that many of the institutions and values we take for granted today are actually the result of battles that once seemed utopian.