RECURSO HEURÍSTICO EM JOHN RAWLS: UMA JUSTIFICAÇÃO PARA UMA TEORIA POLÍTICA

Abstract

This article presents a study on what the American philosopher John Rawls called Heuristic Resource. We intend to show that the Harvard's professor uses this term in two moments in his Theory of Justice as Equity. The first is when it refers to the Original Position. The second moment when John Rawls uses the expression Heuristic Resource refers to what he called the Maximin Principle (maximize the minimum). In this direction, this article intends to shed light on the meaning of the term Heuristic Resource in the Philosophy of John Rawls. In order to do so, we will demonstrate in what direction Rawls uses this concept, as well as the origins of such a resource, which we defend to be associated with the Immanuel Kant thought. In this way, we will present how Kant's thought played a fundamental role in formulating John Rawls's theory, but rather showing how the conception of the heuristic resource in the thought of other philosophers such as Lakatos, Mach, and Vaihinger develops.