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The Original Position in José Saramago's Blindness

2007; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 69; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0034670507000769

1748-6858

Michael Keren,

Political Economy and Marxism

Following the tradition of social contract theories of the early modern age, John Rawls, in A Theory of Justice , renewed the notion of the “original position,” that is, a set of behavioral assumptions from which general principles of justice are deduced. José Saramago's novel Blindness enriches Rawls's normative theory by adding behavioral assumptions that help clarify some of the problems raised by the theory's critics and enhance its application to social and political settings.