Rawls’s Just Savings Principle and the Sense of Justice
Author(s)
Paden, Roger
Abstract
John Rawls’s just savings principle can be justified by appeal to a sense of justice that would be possessed by people in the original position within Rawls’s general theoretical framework. According to Rawls, each generation has a duty to future generations to save an appropriate amount of real capital for the establishment and preservation of just institutions. Future generations should be regarded as outsiders and treated according to nonideal theory in a way that enables them to become members of a just society.
