Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET June 2016 Political Science
Who among the following conceived the society as a 'cooperative venture for mutual advantage'?
AJohn Rawls ✓ Correct
BFriedrich Hayek
CRobert Nozick
DAntonio Gramsci
Correct answer: (A) John Rawls — The description of society as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage is John Rawls's, so the answer is John Rawls.
Explanation
★The description of society as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage is John Rawls's, so the answer is John Rawls.
★He uses the phrase in A Theory of Justice to set up his account of justice.
★Society is seen as a system of cooperation in which people gain more together than apart.
★Because cooperation produces benefits, the question of how to share them fairly arises.
★This is exactly the problem his principles of justice are meant to solve.
★Hayek, Nozick and Gramsci held other views and did not frame society in this way.
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