The Step From Duty to Charity: John Rawls on the Natural Duty of Mutual Aid and the Possibility of Supererogation in a Just and Fair Society in a Theory of Justice

• Main Author: Aurelio, Michael Stephen G
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: John Rawls; Immanuel Kant; ethics; social philosophy; supererogation; beneficence; mutual aid; charity; christian iconography; Applied Ethics; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/63; https://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/14164
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The first part of this paper asks the question regarding the possible justifications for what Kant and Rawls respectively claimed was a human being’s duty to be beneficent to others and give aid to those in need. Going back to Kant’s distinction between perfect and imperfect duties, and his acknowle...