The Concept of Justice and Equality: On the Dispute between John Rawls and Gerald Cohen

This work scrutinizes different elements of a philosophical disagreement about the understanding of justice between John Rawls and Gerald Cohen. Rawls uses the original position device where representative members of society hypothetically meet to select the best principles for their social cooperation. More convincing seems Cohen’s conceptual analysis method which proposes an unveiling of the concept of justice in order to judge what is just.