title: Rawls’ two principles of justice: their adoption by rational self-interested individuals. In A Theory of Justice. creator: Dobra, Alexandra subject: Peer Review subject: Ethics subject: Logic description: The present paper aims in a first stage, to exploit succinctly the cardinal argument – the contract argument - acquainted in “A Theory of Justice”, which provides incentives for the two principles’ general adoption. In a second stage, a discussion appraising the feasibility of these two principles and their subsequent empirical adoption will be dealt with. This contributes to the provision of counter-arguments and the highlighting of weaknesses. date: 2010-01-26 type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/6781/1/E-Logos_Rawls_Article.pdf identifier: Dobra, Alexandra (2010) Rawls’ two principles of justice: their adoption by rational self-interested individuals. In A Theory of Justice. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/6781/