Catherine Audard
2.30-4.30pm | Thursday 18 March 2010
10 Merton Street, University of Oxford
Speaker
Catherine Audard, Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, LSE and Chair of the Forum for European Philosophy; Départment de philosophie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris in conversation with Adam Swift, CUF Lecturer in Politics, Member of the Centre for the Study of Social Justice, Fellow in Politics and Sociology, Balliol College, University of Oxford
Beyond recognising the extraordinary influence of Rawls’s work, it is not easy to assess his legacy because his is a dual legacy. Is he primarily a theorist of justice, or a theorist of stability and legitimacy? We will discuss whether Rawls should be read as a liberal seeking to justify individual rights and egalitarian distributive principles, as a republican committed to public reason in the political sphere.