The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology, 2023, 5(5); doi: 10.25236/FSST.2023.050508.
Yue Junfeng
Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, Liaoning, 116000, China
Rawls once regarded self-respect as one of the most important primary social goods, but eventually it turns to the social basis of self-respect. Rawls realized that self-respect as a subjective evaluative cannot be assigned as a social fundamental good. To protect people's self-respect, society needs to provide a social basic structure that is conducive to the formation and cultivation of self-respect, and this social basic structure is in line with the principle of justice proposed by Rawls.
self-respect; the social basis of self-respect; primary social good; the principle of justice
Yue Junfeng. On the turn of self-respect toward its social basis in the primary social good. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 5: 50-54. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2023.050508.
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