Abstract
John Rawls's most mature notion of political order is stability for the right reasons. Stability for the right reasons is the kind of political order that Rawls hoped a well-ordered society could ideally achieve. In this paper, I demonstrate through the tools of modern game theory, the instability of stability for the right reasons. Specifically, I will show that a well-ordered society can completely destabilize by the introduction of an arbitrarily small number of non-compliers whenever individuals fail to achieve full common knowledge ever so slightly.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Episteme |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 Mar 1 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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The instability of John Rawls's stability for the right reasons. / Chung, Hun.
In: Episteme, Vol. 16, No. 1, 01.03.2019, p. 1-17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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