{"id":986,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/rawls-idea-of-the-liberal-self-is-too-individualistic-explain-in-upsc-psir-2023-0310\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:13","slug":"rawls-idea-of-the-liberal-self-is-too-individualistic-explain-in-upsc-psir-2023-0310","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/rawls-idea-of-the-liberal-self-is-too-individualistic-explain-in-upsc-psir-2023-0310\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawls&#8217; idea of the \u2018liberal self&#8217; is too individualistic. Explain, in this context, the communitarian critique of Rawls\u2019 theory of justice."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Sandel: self constituted by its ends, not prior \u2192 \u201cwholly without character&quot; \u2192 neutral state misreads justice, rights only a remedy for individualism \u2192 MacIntyre: morality lives in narrative + tradition \u2014 Taylor: anti-atomism, self within webs of interlocution \u2014 Walzer: no universal metric, complex equality from social meanings of goods \u2014 unifying move: good prior to right<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">community norms can shield hierarchy \/ patriarchy \/ caste \u2014 Rawls\u2019 Political Liberalism (overlapping consensus) answers the metaphysical- self charge<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Rk! critique exposes the embeddedness Rawls understated, without destroying justice as fairness R2 it sharpens liberalism toward a more situated self rather than replacing it<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[34],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[48],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-986","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-34","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-justice","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/986\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}