@ARTICLE{Górnicka-Kalinowska_Joanna_Political_2021, author={Górnicka-Kalinowska, Joanna}, number={No 4}, journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria}, pages={247-257}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN}, publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego}, abstract={Although John Rawls’s theory is an extensive project of the state structure which also discusses the functions of various democratic institutions, the reader tends naturally to look for something more, namely his opinions about human nature and the psychological underpinnings that ultimately determine men’s and women’s responsibilities in a democratic community. The clues offered by A Theory of Justice are disappointingly scarce, as they tend to blur the distinction between the descriptive and the normative aspects of the problem. Rawls’s analysis of such categories as moral sensitivity, or human motives, or social obligations do not take into account the natural limitations that typically accompany the demands formulated by the just state. Or, to put the same complaint differently, Rawls’s opinions about human nature sound unduly optimistic, if compared, for instance, with Kant’s moral theory to which he makes frequent references.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Political conscience and its natural limits}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/121753/PDF-MASTER/2021-04-PFIL-15-Gornicka.pdf}, doi={10.24425/pfns.2021.138985}, keywords={institutions, justice, I. Kant, law, moral sensitivity, rationality, J. Rawls, rules, social contract, state}, }