What does "the Self is prior to its ends which are affirmed by it" mean.
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Why did Sandel dispute Rawls when he said Self is prior to its ends, and how did Sandel show it in Liberalism and the Limits of Justice?
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It comes from A Theory of Justice, a work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls. It was originally published in 1971 and revised in both 1975 (for the translated editions) and 1999. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society) by utilising a variant of the familiar device of the social contract. The resultant theory is known as "Justice as Fairness", from which Rawls derives his two principles of justice: the liberty principle and the difference principle.
djdundalk
What is philosophy but a reflection of a past viewed through a perception of a philosopher who views similar circumstances throughout history.
Anonymous
In other words, the Self is a priori. It is subtle and whatever the Self is, it is not changed by your opinion of it. It's existence is self evident. It is what it is. If the Self is consciousness, all thoughts and things exist on the substratum of consciousness. As the underlying substance, consciousness would be real, and all thoughts and things would be maya, illusion.
What if consciousness itself is maya? A consequence of something even more subtle and mysterious?
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Curtis Edward Clark
There must be a self before it can have 'ends', things it wants, wishes, desires and works for.
But ends are nothing without a purpose and the self is the purpose, thereby 'affirming' the purpose of those ends.
Anonymous
In Plotinus, the Self is realized in "One Mind Soul"-individuation, particularly via realizing and understanding Ideas. Related: "Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization." A quote from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (Act 3, Scene 1) expresses this: "God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another." "Original Buddha Mind" is a similar awareness, as is Man in God's image and likeness, before the fall, C. S. Lewis' "Till We Have Faces," the Confucian notion of "saving face," Self-realization taught in Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi" and Mark Prophet's "The Path of the Higher Self." Gautama Buddha stated in the earliest Theravadic scriptures that he taught "anchored in Atman"; Atman is the individuated Self within Brahman, the One without a second. T. S. Eliot in "Little Giddings" gives this: "We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time....And all shall be well and/All manner of thing shall be well/When the tongues of flame are in-folded/Into the crowned knot of fire/And the fire and the rose are one."
In contradistinction, Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of "existence precedes essence" propounds a position of "no Self" (which is illogical, as claiming to know/have proven a universal negative is not possible)....However, that is the level to which Jean-Paul attained, however dogmatically.