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Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Michael J. Sandel and Jaegwon Kim

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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 4. Original Position / a. Original position

20594	Choosers in the 'original position' have been stripped of most human characteristics [Sandel, by Tuckness/Wolf]
	Full Idea: Sandel argues that people in the 'original position' have been stripped of everything that makes them recognisably human: their conceptions of the good, their nationality, family membership, religion, friendships and past histories.
	From: report of Michael J. Sandel (Liberalism and the Limits of Justice [1982]) by Tuckness,A/Wolf,C - This is Political Philosophy 4 'Communitarian'
	A reaction: This draws attention to what a pure Enlightenment rational project Rawls is pursuing, in the spirit if Kant's ethics. Choosers in the original position become identical, and thus choose a homogeneous society.