Week Thirteen Weekly Writing
Tommie Shelby’s “Race and Social Justice: Rawlsian Considerations” Weekly Writing
How does Tommie Shelby argue that Rawl’s original position, in which the parties are behind a veil of ignorance, “rules out a selection of a range of principles that would entail, encourage and exacerbate racial injustice”?
Paragraph Two: In Section II, “Race, Personhood, and Equal Citizenship,” Shelby considers Charles Mills’ objection that any liberal contractarian approach extends equal moral status to whites only. How does Shelby respond to this objection? In your explanation, specifically focus on
(a) Rawls’ claims in A Theory of Justice and then
(b) his claims in Political Liberalism.
Opinion Paragraph: Consider the second Justice as Fairness principle Rawls derives from the original position:
