Not P probably but Grace a lot. What a Pynchonian landing if you read to the end. Sticks it. Grace, chance.

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 10:07:28 UTC 2019


In 1971, John Rawls published his major philosophical work, A Theory of
Justice. In it,
most famously is his concept of "the original position", look it up but
oversimplified it goes like this:
our self-construction of the Just Society can only be done IF we construct
it so that we knew
nothing, no place in it where we were likely to be. That is, it should be
just were we a garbage collector
or President and all of our interested positions in between. (Do we
'intellectuals" overvalue that supposed work
compared to dealing cars? Etc.)

Anyway, Rawls PhD thesis was recently made public and it was about the
Pelagian heresy. You can look that up,
of course, but just for Pychonian connections write that it involves
original sin, and feeling damned or saved, all that
Weber in the Protestant Ethic Stuff and, of course Grace.

This guy links it all to his later great secular ideas. Fascinating.

Enjoy or not.

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/294527/john-rawls-justice-jewish-heresy


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